Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:01:40 +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: <20030209233139.GB60203@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3E46C44C.70203@potentialtech.com> References: <200302091847.39504.dgw@liwest.at> <15942.39589.709632.258724@guru.mired.org> <200302092116.33639.dgw@liwest.at> <3E46C44C.70203@potentialtech.com>
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--s2ZSL+KKDSLx8OML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --s2ZSL+KKDSLx8OML Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+RuTbIubykFB6QiMRAua1AJ9vvMA00kqCxIgf4VGisYF4RkbjdgCgnzml AlyhPTMumve3Dsx14jYkU9I= =1de+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --s2ZSL+KKDSLx8OML-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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