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Subject: Re: gcc linker compression
From: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
To: hongjie wu <hongjiewu1225@gmail.com>, gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 12:25:02 +0800
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On Tue, 2022-11-22 at 12:00 +0800, hongjie wu via Gcc-help wrote:
> ArmClang and IAR support compression in the linker. Does gcc support
> similar operations of compression?

GCC does not contain a linker.

> IAR Compression:
> (1) packbits - Compresses with the PackBits algorithm. Thismethod generat=
es
> good results for data with many identicalconsecutive bytes.
> (2) lz77 - Compresses with the Lempel-Ziv-77 algorithm.This method handle=
s
> a larger variety of inputs well, but hasa slightly larger decompressor.
>=20
> ARMclang Compression:
> https://software-dl.ti.com/codegen/docs/tiarmclang/compiler_tools_user_gu=
ide/compiler_manual/linker_description/08_using_linker_generated_copy_table=
s/compression-stdz0754720.html

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Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University