Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:08:03 +0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Garrett Cooper <gcooper@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to stop stripping binaries? Message-ID: <AANLkTikXD-2ZKceXt5XbOdWtpa6jcyZVl7qRoROdWMno@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikny8qXkrrEVVwF0M6BoNPBl7Wu7W3MwPu2b_jc@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100617.143334.584432776655157077.imp@bsdimp.com> <20100618201737.T41916@delplex.bde.org> <1D395333-64E2-4B2D-9E90-B4958FBA6583@gmail.com> <AANLkTikZHGoC8Oy74Scssfm_QVFO-r3qkz4LIq3a6B97@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTikny8qXkrrEVVwF0M6BoNPBl7Wu7W3MwPu2b_jc@mail.gmail.com>
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On 23 June 2010 02:09, Garrett Cooper <gcooper@freebsd.org> wrote: >> ISTR someone pointing out that there's a "magical" (ie, I don't >> understand it) way to optionally have debugging symbols as extra >> file(s), rather than having to ship extremely large shared libraries >> by default. > > =A0 =A0See this link: > http://old.nabble.com/-gcc--separate-debug-infos-td21591416.html . > It's similar to what I've seen some internal groups do before in the > past. People-who-know-the-build-system-well, how hard would it be to build libraries with this option? People-who-know-binutils-and-gdb-and-relevant-libraries-well, what magic needs to happen to teach programs about this? (eg gdb, gprof, pmcstat, etc?) Adrian
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