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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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