[PATCH] D46628: [ELF] Add --strip-debug-non-line option

Wed May 23 07:05:57 PDT 2018

probinson added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D46628#1108997, @modocache wrote:

> In https://reviews.llvm.org/D46628#1095084, @probinson wrote:
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> > Does gold really preserve .debug_info and .debug_abbrev?  Generally .debug_info is by far the largest DWARF section and so the one you most likely want to remove.
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> Good point. `gold` doesn't remove those sections completely, but it does prune them. For example, here's the difference between `gold` and `gold --strip-debug-non-line` for a simple program: https://reviews.llvm.org/P8082

Ah ha.  And if the compile-unit DIE has DW_AT_ranges but .debug_ranges has been eliminated, that's a verifier error.  LLDB probably won't like it either.  Maybe the stripping function needs to become a little smarter.

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https://reviews.llvm.org/D46628