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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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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
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