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Hi all, Context: ld.gold has an --icf=safe flag which is intended to apply ICF only to sections which can be safely merged according to the guarantees provided by the language. It works using a set of heuristics (symbol name matching and relocation scanning). That's not only imprecise but it only works with certain languages and is slow due to the need to demangle symbols and scan