New ch_type value ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD?
Fangrui Song <[email protected]>
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I created https://groups.google.com/g/generic-abi/c/satyPkuMisk ("Add new
ch_type value: ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD") after I saw that on LLVM side, Cole Kissane
proposes that we add Zstandard as new compression method (mainly for .debug*
sections, but also for some LLVM internal things)
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-zstandard-as-a-second-compression-method-to-llvm/63399
This makes a lot of sense to me as I know compression/uncompression takes a lot
of compile/link time. If people agree that this is a good direction, I wish
that we can have a generic-abi value: ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD 2. If that does not
work, perhaps we need a GNU ABI value.
We will need features from a bunch of tools:
* GCC/Clang: perhaps we can introduce a new driver option -gz=zstd
* GNU assembler: add --compress-debug-sections=zstd
* GNU ld: add --compress-debug-sections=zstd
* objcopy/llvm-objcopy: add --compress-debug-sections=zstd
* gdb: support Zstandard
* elfutils: support Zstandard