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Re: debug symbol size
- To: alex at anvil dot co dot uk (Alex Hornby)
- Subject: Re: debug symbol size
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at racerx dot synopsys dot com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 08:01:51 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> I've installed the 20001127 snapshot, and I have noticed that a C++
> "hello world" program with -g generates .text of 632 bytes and a
> .stabstr of 144017 bytes. If I use -ggdb the symbols reduce to around
> 120000 bytes.
>
> This seems like a lot of debug for 632 bytes of text. Is this a
> feature of debug symbols that cannot be avoided?
Your text included a #include, so you gave the compiler tens of thousands
of bytes, not 632 bytes.