How does the gcc -g option affect performance?

[Kevin P. Fleming]

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.