Based on the discussion in
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/80229
changed implementation to align with how .debug_abbrev is handled. So
that
.debug_names abbrev tag is a monotonically increasing index. This allows
for
tools like LLDB to access it in constant time using array like data
structure.
clang-19 debug build
before change
[41] .debug_names PROGBITS 0000000000000000 8f9e0350 137fdbe0 00 0 0 4
after change
[41] .debug_names PROGBITS 0000000000000000 8f9e0350 125bfdec 00 0 0 4
Reduction ~19.1MB
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