[Bug binutils/29505] xxx-w64-mingw32-objdump takes a long time to scan pe binaries for debug information

[nickc at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29505

--- Comment #14 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Ralf Habacker from comment #13)

> Since this probably results from the mass dumping of debug information in
> plain text, which is discarded except for the details of the source files
> used, I wonder whether an extension of objdump -W..., which only outputs the
> source files used, could speed this up even more.

I am guessing that such an option would not make a lot of difference,
since the debug information will still have to be loaded and scanned.

But that is not to say that it will not work, just that I am doubtful.
If you would care to put together a patch to implement the idea I
would be happy to review it.

Cheers
  Nick

PS.  In the meantime, would it be OK if I closed this PR ?

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