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<p><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 12pt;">></span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 12pt;">Not sure I un</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-size: 12pt;">derstand what you're suggesting here, sorry :/ </span><br>
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<div>Ah, looks it is that:<br>
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<div>"t<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI WPC", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">hat's why something like Apple's scheme (leave the debug info in the object files, but have the linker ignore them -</span>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", "Segoe UI WPC", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">then merge the debug info separately in dsymutil) wasn't applicabl</span>e".<br>
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<div>So instead of splitting debug info into separate files, info could be still included into linker output.<br>
But difference with current traditional flow is that linker would <span style="font-size: 12pt;">not process debug relocations</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(because technically info can be (probably) close/the same as split debug has)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, what could (probably</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">)</span></div>
<div>resolve issues with relocations processing (too large values). Could keep the single output file, but save time<br>
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<div>that linker normally spends on resolving relocations. And allows to do things like deduplications inside linker</div>
<div>(what can be convinent). Though increases output size (not sure it is still a problem nowadays).<br>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Have to run away now, sorry.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">George.</span><br>
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