From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 5 20:53:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA27754 for current-outgoing; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 20:53:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA27749 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 20:52:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA21065; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 15:46:46 +1100 Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 15:46:46 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199602060446.PAA21065@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, davidg@root.com, leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Subject: Re: make world with -fomit-frame-pointer Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, jdli@linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> We strip the symbol table from system utilities before installing them >>(making debugging impossible), so why do you think -fomit-frame-pointer will >>make things any worse in this respect? I wrote: >The utilities are easy to reconstruct (perhaps even with full debugging >symbols) by recompiling the sources (provided the sources and the compiler, >etc., haven't been changed since the binaries were installed). >Same for the kernel. Except for the ^@^%%^&@ vers.o file and similar things that are altered by rebuilding. I think there is only a problem with vers.o if one of the strings becomes longer or shorter. Bruce