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Re: debug symbol size
Joe Buck writes:
> > 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.
>
My second paragraph was unclear. It should read:
This seems like a lot of debug for 632 bytes of .text. Is this a
feature of debug symbols that cannot be avoided?
Note the . of .text. I was trying to say that for such a small text
segment there was perhaps an excessive amount of debug information
output.
Regards,
Alex.