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Subject: Re: Clang '-g' unused warnings in FreeBSD (linking)
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Thanks, both replies were very informative!

Regarding

> one could argue that passing '-g' to the link stage is nonsensical, 
> since ld cannot add debug information, it can only remove it (via the '-s'
> flag).

Is precisely why I was asking If this was conscious decision on FreeBSD 
part.

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