From: Fangrui Song <i@maskray.me>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Support objcopy changing compression to or from zstd
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 15:01:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221004220134.ifx4i33v2obhzitr@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YzvrMEdkXjIn5Lfz@squeak.grove.modra.org>
On 2022-10-04, Alan Modra via Binutils wrote:
>Commit 2cac01e3ffff lacked support for objcopy changing compression
>style. Add that support, which meant a rewrite of
>bfd_compress_section_contents. In the process I've fixed some memory
>leaks.
For objcopy --compress-debug-sections=zstd , I know that omitting
recompression of zlib into zstd was intentional. --compress-debug-sections=zstd
does not specify what to do when a section is compressed, so both (a)
do nothing (b) re-compression with zstd are fine but I think
avoiding recompression can avoid some complexity...
If a .o is compressed with zlib level 5, should --compress-debug-sections=zlib
re-compress it or leave it as-is?
At any rate, I think the objcopy --compress-debug-sections=zstd
behavior with zlib compressed sections is mostly not interesting to a
user.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-04 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-04 8:13 Alan Modra
2022-10-04 22:01 ` Fangrui Song [this message]
2022-10-05 6:02 ` Jan Beulich
2022-10-05 21:04 ` Alan Modra
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