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Date:      Wed, 28 Jul 2021 00:35:03 -0700
From:      Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
To:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 5f946c76c0cc - main - Update WITHOUT_KERNEL_SYMBOLS description
Message-ID:  <9645F202-8D4D-4AAB-AC1C-4A4EC4214A42@yahoo.com>
References:  <9645F202-8D4D-4AAB-AC1C-4A4EC4214A42.ref@yahoo.com>

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Ed Maste emaste at FreeBSD.org wrote on
Tue Jul 27 21:24:57 UTC 2021 :

. . .
> diff --git a/tools/build/options/WITHOUT_KERNEL_SYMBOLS =
b/tools/build/options/WITHOUT_KERNEL_SYMBOLS
> index 79856e28c1aa..33fa2c4f1c97 100644
> --- a/tools/build/options/WITHOUT_KERNEL_SYMBOLS
> +++ b/tools/build/options/WITHOUT_KERNEL_SYMBOLS
> @@ -1,5 +1,2 @@
>  .\" $FreeBSD$
> -Do not install kernel symbol files.
> -.Bf -symbolic
> -This option is recommended for those people who have small root =
partitions.
> -.Ef
> +Do not install kernel debug symbol files.


This wording leaves open at least 2 possibilities:

A) The kernel debug symbols are not stripped out and are left in the
   original kernel files, so the information is still available, just
   in a different place.

B) The kernel debug symbols become not available by being stripped
   out of the original kernel files without being moved/copied to
   other files.



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