https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21332
--- Comment #3 from Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org> --- (In reply to rguenther from comment #2) > On Thu, 30 Mar 2017, mark at klomp dot org wrote: > > The question is how did a compressed ELF section end up in the elfstrmerge.o > > file in the first place? Especially since it apparently isn't in the > > resulting > > EXE file. Seems somehow the ET_REL file got created with a compressed ELF > > section, but then the linker fixed things up again? > > Recent GAS versions compress debug sections by default (but ld then > uncompresses again for the final exe). Supposedly to improve I/O. That seems like a stupid default. Were there any benchmarks showing the extra compressing/decompressing cycle actually help? I am sure eu-elflint isn't the only program that cannot handle compressed ELF sections by default. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.