<div dir="ltr">thanks for sharing your use case.<div><br></div><div>I haven't able to update on this topic due to other commitments. Will get back to it soon.</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Nicolas, Laurent via llvm-dev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I alluded to 2 of the issues in my previous post.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">We have a couple of very large libraries. The link fails if I add -fcoverage-mapping. I would think that the mapping information should not matter
for the runtime, so I’d expect the link to succeed, even if we have a lot of metadata that will be used by llvm-cov.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">We’re shipping the code as an appliance, where the distribution is stored in flash memory. Legacy platforms have a small memory size, so being able
to strip the metadata would be very useful. We can keep the object files with the metadata on our data servers, so that they can used when running llvm-cov, but the runtime should be able to use the stripped versions, to save space (and maybe load a bit faster).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Thank you<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 08, 2015 9:14 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nicolas, Laurent <<a href="mailto:Laurent.Nicolas@netapp.com" target="_blank">Laurent.Nicolas@netapp.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [llvm-dev] RFC: Reducing Instr PGO size overhead<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Out of curiosity, could you explain your use case a bit more? In particular could you elaborate on the size issues that you are encountering? (from past experience, I have a pretty clear idea of google's size issues, so I didn't explicitly
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<p>1)<span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>When using -fcoverage-mapping, some of the information is emitted in the text section. This is creating linking issues with very large files. It does not seem any of this information should necessarily be in
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<p>2)<span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Could the information emitted for -fcoverage-mapping be placed into their own section(s)? The objective is to be able to strip the sections for embedded systems. But we could still use the original (unstripped)
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