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   "goal": [
    "Enable linker safe identical code folding for Darwin builds to shrink release binary sizes by roughly 5%."
   ],
   "reviewability": [
    "Review is paused while waiting for the author to update the patch with required compiler flags."
   ],
   "agreement": [
    "Broad concept support for reducing binary sizes with identical code folding (hebasto, davidgumberg).",
    "Blocking objection that safe folding on Mach-O requires -faddrsig to avoid folding address-taken functions (151henry151, hebasto, Sjors).",
    "Author engaged by opening an upstream LLVM documentation PR but has not yet updated the branch (fanquake)."
   ],
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    {
     "name": "build",
     "why": [
      "P3 because reducing release binary sizes by 5% is a worthwhile optimization for macOS downloads.",
      "It is readily deferrable and carries no urgency or blocking dependencies."
     ]
    }
   ]
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  "summary": "This pull request adds linker flags to CMakeLists.txt to attempt safe identical code folding (-Wl,--icf=safe_thunks and -Wl,--icf=safe). The change targets macOS binaries built with lld to eliminate duplicate function bodies and reduce final binary sizes.",
  "problem": "Release binaries for macOS contain duplicate identical function code across template instantiations and small helpers, increasing download size and disk footprint for macOS users.",
  "discussion": {
   "open_concerns": [
    "On Mach-O targets with LLVM 19, -Wl,--icf=safe without -faddrsig folds address-significant functions, breaking C++ function pointer uniqueness invariants (Sjors, 151henry151).",
    "Enabling true safe folding requires adding -faddrsig to Darwin compilation flags across core and depends (151henry151).",
    "Probe order in CMakeLists.txt will cause safe to override safe_thunks on toolchains supporting both (hebasto, 151henry151)."
   ],
   "resolved_concerns": [
    "Moving the linker probe from REDUCE_EXPORTS into general linker flags (theuni, fanquake)."
   ],
   "author_status": "silent since 2026-08-10 after opening an upstream LLVM documentation PR"
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  "reviewability": {
   "state": "Paused",
   "label": "Waiting on author",
   "reason": "Reviewers proved that -Wl,--icf=safe unsafely folds address-taken functions on Darwin unless -faddrsig is passed during compilation. Reviewing the current patch is unhelpful until the author addresses the toolchain flags and probe order."
  },
  "agreement": {
   "state": "Disputed",
   "summary": "Disputed: safe ICF requires -faddrsig on Darwin to avoid folding address-taken functions (151henry151, hebasto, Sjors)",
   "reason": "There is clear concept agreement on ICF to reduce binary size, but reviewers have withheld approval because the current implementation behaves identically to unsafe ICF on Mach-O without -faddrsig. The author acknowledged the issue upstream but has not updated the PR.",
   "evidence": [
    "davidgumberg ACKed an earlier revision with Guix benchmark data showing ~5% size savings",
    "Sjors provided a reproducer demonstrating function pointer comparison failures when address-significant folding occurs",
    "151henry151 reviewed at 24ad7419de stating 'Not an ACK in its current shape' and showed that adding -faddrsig preserves almost all size savings while preventing incorrect symbol collisions",
    "hebasto agreed that -faddrsig must be enabled explicitly for macOS targets and noted the probe order issue"
   ]
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   "depends_on": [],
   "enables": []
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   {
    "name": "build",
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    "evidence": "Modifies CMakeLists.txt linker flags for Darwin Guix release builds.",
    "band": "P3",
    "reason_tag": "speedup",
    "score": 0.35,
    "factors": {
     "security_stability": 0,
     "bug_severity": 0,
     "performance": 1,
     "user_value": 1,
     "leverage": 0
    },
    "rationale": "A 5% reduction in release binary sizes (around 0.5 MB for bitcoind and 1.3 MB for bitcoin-qt) is a clear, measured benefit for download distribution and disk footprint on macOS. However, binary size reduction is deferrable optimization work that does not fix a bug, improve security, or unblock other development."
   }
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  "confidence": "high",
  "uncertainties": [],
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  "card": "This pull request configures linker identical code folding in CMakeLists.txt to reduce Darwin release binary sizes by approximately 5%. The change benefits macOS users by reducing download and installation sizes. While reviewers support the size reduction in concept, investigation by reviewers revealed that the current patch folds address-taken functions on Darwin without the -faddrsig compiler flag, causing subtle runtime correctness issues. The PR is currently paused waiting on the author to incorporate the necessary compiler flags and fix the linker probe ordering."
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