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Date:      Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:32:14 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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:  <20030210000214.GF60203@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <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> <3E46E757.5060108@potentialtech.com>

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On Sunday,  9 February 2003 at 18:42:15 -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> On Sunday,  9 February 2003 at 16:12:44 -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> 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.

I've been pushing for this, at least for the kernel build, for some
time.  It can make a big difference in the size of the directories,
though.

Greg
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