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On 7 June 2013 19:35, Don Lewis <truckman@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Can the debug files be compressed so they don't take up as much room? It
> looks like gdb supports compressed symbol files.  The same would be nice
> for /boot/kernel/*.symbols, btw ...

Unfortunately our binutils is too old, so we're out of luck in the
short term.  This is most likely a project to undertake once we've
migrated from binutils.