RFC: PATCH: Avoid reading debug symbols

[H.J. Lu]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 6:21 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 09:00:22PM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
>  > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:36:41PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>  > > Does this patch make senses?
>  >
>  > Why don't you tell us?  Presumably the benefit is reduced memory usage
>  > and/or faster symbol processing.  Show the numbers..
>  >
>
>  I have an executable with 45 million debug symbols. The current
>  strip runs out of memory on a machine with 4GB RAM and 2GB swap
>  while reading in the whole symbol table. The new strip only
>  takes less than 900MB memory.
>

Here is an updated patch. It tries to avoid loading debug symbols with
more than 1000000 symbols during linking when -s is used. I am not sure
if there will be relocations against debug symbols. If yes, I should also
discard relocations in debug sections.


H.J.
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