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Re: How does the gcc -g option affect performance?
Madani, Srikanth, VF-DE wrote:
The binary produced with the -g debugging flag, and then stripped will have no symbols; whereas the binary produced without the -g flag will.
That's an oversimplification; if you use strip --strip-debug, you will
end up with the same binary as if you had never used -g.
If you use any more aggressive options for strip, then yes, you will
lose other symbols that may have been there for legitimate reasons.