--duplicate-function-elimination and "names" section

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
28/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
wasm
Domain
compilers

Research direction

Start by tracing the implementation of --duplicate-function-elimination and how it handles the WebAssembly names section. Check the relevant optimizer behavior and any existing coverage to determine whether removing names is intentional; done means reaching a documented conclusion and, if it is incorrect, a focused change with regression coverage.

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Description

It is understandable that --duplicate-function-elimination removes debug info, as that isn't updated correctly. But does it need to remove the names section as well?

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