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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--27ZtN5FSuKKSZcBU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --27ZtN5FSuKKSZcBU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+RuwGIubykFB6QiMRArJuAJ9WoIMpIG801OdrZBTjC9AJCDYUWgCeIeiG 37zCyGWswXwyPi1VizA6ilU= =k+8S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --27ZtN5FSuKKSZcBU-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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