From 5a8c5e322b67c16be6cdcec7621c4a59ae86dd85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Kelley <andrew@ziglang.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:05:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] frontend: default strip=true on hex and raw object formats

---
 src/Compilation/Config.zig |  1 -
 src/target.zig             | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Compilation/Config.zig b/src/Compilation/Config.zig
index affb7cf5c1e9ddb85e137eaef26dcb7750966657..85915ded1b97d4e324a1cebbdb1385758ebea6f0 100644
--- a/src/Compilation/Config.zig
+++ b/src/Compilation/Config.zig
@@ -487,7 +487,6 @@ pub fn resolve(options: Options) ResolveError!Config {
     const root_strip = b: {
         if (options.root_strip) |x| break :b x;
         if (root_optimize_mode == .small) break :b true;
-        if (target.cpu.arch == .spork8) break :b true;
         if (!target_util.hasDebugInfo(target)) break :b true;
         break :b false;
     };
diff --git a/src/target.zig b/src/target.zig
index 48c29feb3899b97ce0a47f83cb64f6435263a435..5edf18e9581df4d786b515f6b5a2bfdf33e34561 100644
--- a/src/target.zig
+++ b/src/target.zig
@@ -396,26 +396,29 @@ pub fn classifyCompilerRtLibName(name: []const u8) CompilerRtClassification {
 }
 
 pub fn hasDebugInfo(target: *const std.Target) bool {
-    return switch (target.cpu.arch) {
-        // TODO: We should make newer PTX versions depend on older ones so we'd just check `ptx75`.
-        .nvptx, .nvptx64 => target.cpu.hasAny(.nvptx, &.{
-            .ptx75,
-            .ptx76,
-            .ptx77,
-            .ptx78,
-            .ptx80,
-            .ptx81,
-            .ptx82,
-            .ptx83,
-            .ptx84,
-            .ptx85,
-            .ptx86,
-            .ptx87,
-            .ptx88,
-            .ptx90,
-        }),
-        .bpfel, .bpfeb => false,
-        else => true,
+    return switch (target.ofmt) {
+        .raw, .hex => false,
+        else => switch (target.cpu.arch) {
+            // TODO: We should make newer PTX versions depend on older ones so we'd just check `ptx75`.
+            .nvptx, .nvptx64 => target.cpu.hasAny(.nvptx, &.{
+                .ptx75,
+                .ptx76,
+                .ptx77,
+                .ptx78,
+                .ptx80,
+                .ptx81,
+                .ptx82,
+                .ptx83,
+                .ptx84,
+                .ptx85,
+                .ptx86,
+                .ptx87,
+                .ptx88,
+                .ptx90,
+            }),
+            .bpfel, .bpfeb => false,
+            else => true,
+        },
     };
 }
 
-- 
2.54.0