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Re: RFC: Support linker --compress-debug-sections


"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:

> linker now supports compressed debug sections. I am
> investigating --compress-debug-sections, On one hand,
> linker applies relocations when writing to disk after file layout
> is set.  On the other hand, compression, which has to be
> done after all relocations are applied, will change file layout.
>
> I don't want to make massive changes to linker. I am planning
> to put a mini objcopy in linker, which will compress debug
> sections after the output has been written to disk.  Any
> comments?

You're proposing to generate the full sized binary on disk, and then
objcopy it to compress the debug sections?  Is that really a win?  Why
not just add the option to objcopy and be done with it?

Ian


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