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-rw-r--r--lld/ELF/InputFiles.cpp9
-rw-r--r--lld/test/ELF/debug-gnu-pubnames.s10
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lld/ELF/InputFiles.cpp b/lld/ELF/InputFiles.cpp
index 3b92ff16fb3..c796fdadd82 100644
--- a/lld/ELF/InputFiles.cpp
+++ b/lld/ELF/InputFiles.cpp
@@ -461,6 +461,15 @@ elf::ObjectFile<ELFT>::createInputSection(const Elf_Shdr &Sec,
if (Config->Strip != StripPolicy::None && Name.startswith(".debug"))
return &InputSection::Discarded;
+ // If -gdb-index is given, LLD creates .gdb_index section, and that
+ // section serves the same purpose as .debug_gnu_pub{names,types} sections.
+ // If that's the case, we want to eliminate .debug_gnu_pub{names,types}
+ // because they are redundant and can waste large amount of disk space
+ // (for example, they are about 400 MiB in total for a clang debug build.)
+ if (Config->GdbIndex &&
+ (Name == ".debug_gnu_pubnames" || Name == ".debug_gnu_pubtypes"))
+ return &InputSection::Discarded;
+
// The linkonce feature is a sort of proto-comdat. Some glibc i386 object
// files contain definitions of symbol "__x86.get_pc_thunk.bx" in linkonce
// sections. Drop those sections to avoid duplicate symbol errors.
diff --git a/lld/test/ELF/debug-gnu-pubnames.s b/lld/test/ELF/debug-gnu-pubnames.s
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0a8693c97eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lld/test/ELF/debug-gnu-pubnames.s
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# REQUIRES: x86
+# RUN: ld.lld -e main %p/Inputs/gdb-index-a.elf %p/Inputs/gdb-index-b.elf -o %t1.exe
+# RUN: llvm-readobj -sections %t1.exe | FileCheck -check-prefix=CHECK1 %s
+# CHECK1: Name: .debug_gnu_pubnames
+# CHECK1: Name: .debug_gnu_pubtypes
+
+# RUN: ld.lld -gdb-index -e main %p/Inputs/gdb-index-a.elf %p/Inputs/gdb-index-b.elf -o %t2.exe
+# RUN: llvm-readobj -sections %t2.exe | FileCheck -check-prefix=CHECK2 %s
+# CHECK2-NOT: Name: .debug_gnu_pubnames
+# CHECK2-NOT: Name: .debug_gnu_pubtypes
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