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Date:      Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:52:47 -0500
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        J McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: debug kernel size
Message-ID:  <19991101145247.56786@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911011757500.45098-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from J McKitrick on Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 06:01:40PM %2B0000
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911011757500.45098-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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On Monday,  1 November 1999 at 18:01:40 +0000, J McKitrick wrote:
> I've seen some posts here to the effect that there is no need to strip
> debug info from a kernel, because this info is not loaded into memory.
> But somewhere in Lehey's book, i thought i saw a statement that the
> symbols ARE loaded into memory to allow debugging, and so they DO take up
> system resources.  WHich is true?

Both :-)

>  p.s.  I'll keep looking for that statement, i thought i found it
> but it was the wrong one...

Tell me when you find it, and I'll remove it.

The statement (if it's there) was true when I wrote it (when we had
a.out kernels), but it no longer applies to elf kernels.

Greg
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