On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 11:46:41PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Tuesday, January 8, 2019, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote: > > > . > > > > Note that Firefox is built with --no-keep-memory > > --reduce-memory-overheads, and that was still not enough for 32-bts > > builds. GNU gold instead of BFD ld was also given a shot. That didn't > > work either. Presently, to make things link at all on 32-bits platforms, > > debug info is entirely disabled. I still need to figure out what minimal > > debug info can be enabled without incurring too much memory usage > > during linking. > > > Dang. Yes, removing debug symbols was the only way I could get webkit to > link without thrashing, it's a temporary fix though. > > So the removal of the algorithm in ld Dr Stallman wrote, dating back to the > 1990s, has already resulted in a situation that's worse than I feared. > > At some point apps are going to become so insanely large that not even > disabling debug info will help.
That's less likely, I'd say. Debug info *is* getting incredibly more and more complex for the same amount of executable weight, and linking that is making things worse and worse. But having enough code to actually be a problem without debug info is probably not so close. There are solutions to still keep full debug info, but the Debian packaging side doesn't support that presently: using split-dwarf. It would probably be worth investing in supporting that. Mike
