[llvm-dev] [LLD] Should --compress_debug_sections be enabled (=zlib) by default ?

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> From: llvm-dev [mailto:llvm-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org] On Behalf Of
> Romain GEISSLER via llvm-dev
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2019 12:53 PM
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> Subject: [llvm-dev] [LLD] Should --compress_debug_sections be enabled
> (=zlib) by default ?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In the file lld/ELF/Driver.cpp in function getCompressDebugSections we can
> see that the current default for lld is no debug section compression. It
> looks like tools like gdb, valgrind, elfutils, gcc's backtrace lib
> currently support compressed symbols. Since perf can use libdw from
> elfutils, I guess it supports it too.
> 
> Do you think it's time to enable compressed debug section by default ? On
> some of my big binaries (several hundreds of MB) this could save 50% of
> the overall binary size.

I think we'd want a way to make this customizable for different platforms.
--paulr

> 
> Cheers,
> Romain
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