[darubedarob]

I think google of all companies could build a good autostripper reducing binaries by adding partial load assembly on misses. It cant be much slower then shovelling a full monorepo assembly plus symbols into ram.

[loeg]

The low-hanging fruit is just not shipping the debuginfo, of course.

[usefulcat]

Is compressed debug info a thing? It seems likely to compress well, and if it's rarely used then it might be a worthwhile thing to do?

[loeg]

It is: https://maskray.me/blog/2022-01-23-compressed-debug-sections

But the compression ratio isn't magical (approx. 1:0.25, for both zlib and zstd in the examples given). You'd probably still want to set aside debuginfo in separate files.

[Gibbon1]

Small brained primate comment.

With embedded firmware you only flash the .text and and flash to the device. But you still can debug using the .elf file. In my case if I get a bus fault I'll pull the offending address off the stack and use bintools and the .elf to show me who was naughty. I think if you have a crash dump you should be able to make sense of things as long as you keep the unstripped .elf file around.