On 10/17/19 6:36 PM, Nick Alcock wrote: > A side note here: the sizes given above are uncompressed sizes, but in > the real world CTF is almost always compressed: the threshold for > compression is in theory customizable but at the moment is hardwired at > 4KiB-uncompressed in the linker. I usually see compression ratios of > roughly 3 or 4 to 1: e.g. I just tried it with a randomly chosen binary, > /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0.2404.3, and got these sizes:
DWARF can be compressed too, with --compress-debug-sections. Thanks, Pedro Alves
