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Subject: Re: Time to stop stripping binaries?
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In message: <1D395333-64E2-4B2D-9E90-B4958FBA6583@gmail.com>
            Fabien Thomas <thomas.fabien@gmail.com> writes:
: 
: On 18 juin 2010, at 12:24, Bruce Evans wrote:
: 
: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > 
: >> Now that disks are big, can we stop stripping binaries by default?
: > 
: > Symbols aren't very useful unless they are full debugging symbols, but
: > with full debugging symbols the unstripped binaries would be _very_ large.
: > 
: > With only non-debugging symbols, the symbols' size in most shared
: > executables is small since most symbols are in libraries.  However,
: > all libraries may need to be compiled with full symbols irrespective
: > of the default policy for stripping installed binaries, so that you
: > can debug [non-installed] binaries.
: 
: Having base symbols will help if you do PMC on the system for example.
: I'm always building with DONTSTRIP=1 to have it at the moment.

Also, you don't need full symbols to debug core dumps.  You get less
info than full symbols, true.  But at least you can get a trackback,
typically, of where things died.

Warner