> > Over on the generic-abi mailing list, Fang-Rui Song recently proposed a > new compressed relocation format for ELF, motivated in part by the number > of relocations for string in the .debug_names tables. Regardless of the > resolution of that proposal, some simple changes to the DWARF spec could > help eliminate a substantial number of those relocations. In fact, parts of > the split DWARF series of proposals in DWARF 5 were all about minimizing > the quantity of relocations (e.g., DW_FORM_addrx and DW_FORM_strx). > > This proposal adds an indirect string form to the name table (for use when > a non-split DWARF compilation is already using .debug_str_offsets), and a > local string pool in the name table (for use in a split-DWARF compilation). >
This is proposal 240320.1 <https://dwarfstd.org/issues/240320.1.html>. -cary
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