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Date:      Mon, 14 Nov 2005 04:03:39 -0500
From:      Dev Tugnait <dev@unixdaemon.org>
To:        Simon Ironside <sironside@interfone.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org, delphij@delphij.net
Subject:   Re: 6.0R GENERIC makeoptions DEBUG=-g
Message-ID:  <1131959019.6427.31.camel@dracula>
In-Reply-To: <43785072.5030508@interfone.net>
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safe to leave un-commented no hindrance in performance.

On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 08:53 +0000, Simon Ironside wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > I think this is intentional.  Having DEBUG=-g means that you have a
> > kernel.debug which contains debugging symbols, which is quite useful
> > if you get a kernel panic and want to report it back.  On the other
> > hand, debugging symbols would be stripped before you install a new
> > kernel so it does not affect the running kernel.
> 
> This has changed since 5.4 - I just wondered why and whether I would be 
> best leaving it as is or commenting it out.
> 
> Simon
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