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Date:      Sun, 09 Feb 2003 18:42:15 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Daniela <dgw@liwest.at>, Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1045246502.d60a79@mired.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Automatically include debug symbols?
Message-ID:  <3E46E757.5060108@potentialtech.com>
References:  <200302091847.39504.dgw@liwest.at> <15942.39589.709632.258724@guru.mired.org> <200302092116.33639.dgw@liwest.at> <3E46C44C.70203@potentialtech.com> <20030209233139.GB60203@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Sunday,  9 February 2003 at 16:12:44 -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
> 
>>Daniela wrote:
>>
>>>On Sunday 09 February 2003 19:15, Mike Meyer wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>You can get everything to build with debug symbols by adding
>>>>"CFLAGS=-g" to /etc/make.conf. However, the system will strip the
>>>>binaries when it installs them. You could probably get the
>>>>non-stripped version installed if you really wanted to, but I'd
>>>>recommend not doing that, and just using the version in /usr/obj,
>>>>which shouldn't be stripped, for debugging.
>>>
>>>Why shouldn't I do this? Is it just because debug binaries are bigger or
>>>run slower? If so, that's not a problem for me, I have a fast processor
>>>and a lot of memory.
>>
>>I guess if you don't mind them eating up RAM, then go ahead.  Keep
>>in mind that it can easily be 5x the amount of RAM a stripped binary
>>uses.
> 
> The symbols don't get loaded into memory on execution.  There
> shouldn't be any difference in the amount of RAM used.

OK, well ... I feel stupid then.

It's just a disk space issue then?  Because ... if it doesn't eat up RAM,
I have a hard time thinking why I shouldn't have all my binaries with debug
symbols all of the time.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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