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...ust implement that future better thing) I see. Basing on all comments in this thread I am inclined to agree that implementing newer thing does not make much sence atm. For now I prepared patch to error out when LLD faces objects with multiple .debug_* sections for cases when we do not support it. (D40950​). (In LLD we are supporting deduplicating COMDATs, so generally such object is not a problem as already supported, but for error reporting purposes and for --gdb-index we assume debug sections are unique in object, so in that case we looks want to error out). Have last thoughts/question about thi...

>If you're interested in things you can do in the linker for this - you might consider something more aggressive: Fully DWARF aware deduplication. > >This could be done hopefully by reusing some of the code in the dsymutil implementation in LLVM. > >This would be much more effective (and without the possible context-sensitive tradeoffs) than using type units. >Though