DWZ 0.17 released
Project / Subsystem
gcc / gcc
Date
2026-07-11
Proposer
Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
Source type
public_inbox
Consensus
Proposed
Sentiment
—/10
Technical tradeoffs
- • Increased support for compressed input may add minor overhead during processing for uncompressed inputs.
- • Improved size optimization for libraries and executables using DWARF debug information.
All attributes
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- gcc
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- gcc
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- 20260711201828.GF31804@gnu.wildebeest.org
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- DWZ 0.17 released
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- DWZ 0.17 released
- tldr
- DWZ, a tool for optimizing DWARF debugging information, has released version 0.17, adding support for compressed debug sections.
- proposer
- Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
- consensus
- Proposed
- outcome
- proposed
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- —
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-
- • Increased support for compressed input may add minor overhead during processing for uncompressed inputs.
- • Improved size optimization for libraries and executables using DWARF debug information.
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- tags
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- • debugging
- • DWARF
- • optimization
- • GCC
- • binutils
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- date
- 2026-07-11T00:00:00.000Z
DWZ 0.17 released
Mark Wielaard announced the release of DWZ version 0.17. DWZ optimizes DWARF debugging information for size by replacing duplicated information with equivalent representations and using compilation units. This release adds support for handling compressed debug sections on input.