--compress-sections <section-glib>=[none|zlib|zstd] is similar to
--compress-debug-sections but applies to broader sections without the
SHF_ALLOC flag. lld will report an error if a SHF_ALLOC section is
matched. An interesting use case is to compress `.strtab`/`.symtab`,
which consume a significant portion of the file size (15.1% for a
release build of Clang).
An older revision is available at https://reviews.llvm.org/D154641 .
This patch focuses on non-allocated sections for safety. Moving
`maybeCompress` as D154641 does not handle STT_SECTION symbols for
`-r --compress-debug-sections=zlib` (see `relocatable-section-symbol.s`
from #66804).
Since different output sections may use different compression
algorithms, we need CompressedData::type to generalize
config->compressDebugSections.
GNU ld feature request: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27452
Link: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-compress-arbitrary-sections-with-ld-lld-compress-sections/71674
Pull Request: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/84855
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