Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 15:46:46 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, davidg@root.com, leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, jdli@linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw Subject: Re: make world with -fomit-frame-pointer Message-ID: <199602060446.PAA21065@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> 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
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