There are 2 places where llvm-objcopy creates CompressedSection:
- For --compress-debug-sections. It might create the compressed section from
regular here:
https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/tools/llvm-objcopy/ELF/ELFObjcopy.cpp#L486
- All initially compressed sections are created as CompressedSection during reading the sections
from an object:
https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/tools/llvm-objcopy/ELF/Object.cpp#L1118
Those have DebugCompressionType::None type and a different constructor.
Case 1 has the following code in its constructor:
if (!zlib::isAvailable()) { CompressionType = DebugCompressionType::None; return; }
(https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/tools/llvm-objcopy/ELF/Object.cpp#L267)
We can never reach that code with because would report an error much earlier:
https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/tools/llvm-objcopy/CopyConfig.cpp#L480
So the code I am removing is dead. Landing this will address the issue mentioned in https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40886.
Maybe you should have an assertion here so that we don't try to create CompressedSection if there is no zlib?