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Re: Debuggin info for unused sections
Hi Tristan,
Wouldn't be possible to compact debug sections (i.e. discarding bytes corresponding to garbage collected sections) ?
Yes. In fact there is a lot we could do to reduce the size of the debug
sections, not just by eliminating references to garbage collected
sections. There is a lot of duplicated information for example, as well
as better ways of encoding some information. I even wrote a tool once
to do most of this, but it never saw the light of day. Basically it is
a non-trivial task, but one that would be worthwhile should somebody be
interested in doing it.
Cheers
Nick