[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D45628: [LLDB] Support compressed debug info sections (.zdebug*)

[David Blaikie via Phabricator via lldb-commits]

dblaikie added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D45628#1067375, @aprantl wrote:

> Which compilers / platforms generate / support this? Is this an ELF-only feature?


Clang/LLVM do (-Wa,--compress-debug-sections). Yeah, it's ELF only so far as I know. There's a couple of variations (-compress-debug-sections=zlib or zlib-gnu) the ".zdebug_foo" is zlib-gnu style, but a more modern variant (zlib) uses a section attribute SHF_COMPRESSED instead of the name mangling.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D45628#1067382, @clayborg wrote:

> If this is for current and future debugging, it would be nice to change the tool to just use the normal .debug prefixes and just specify SHF_COMPRESSED???


At least for now, zlib-gnu style is used at Google - I don't actually know what it'd cost to switch to the more modern zlib (using SHF_COMPRESSED) style. No doubt there are a variety of tools that may not have been updated/improved to support the new format - hard to say.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D45628