Re: ELF section/file compression

2020-10-06 Thread Jeff Law
y. > Personally I must admit that I am not really a fan of using ELF > section/file compression. It makes it impossible to simply mmap the > data in or to quickly read just a tiny bit because you first have to > decompress (and allocate new memory) for it. IMHO .debug files are no > dif

ELF section/file compression

2020-10-06 Thread Mark Wielaard
, I'd claim > sticking with zlib, gzip,  bzip2, xz, 7z, etc is unwise.  The world has > moved and zstd seems like the place we should be.  In fact, we use it > for various things within GCC already. Personally I must admit that I am not really a fan of using ELF section/file compression.