Generating a symbol-file for a release version.

[tom]

On 05/11/10 10:07, Cedric Roux wrote:
> On 11/05/2010 10:58 AM, tom wrote:
>> I have a program that segfaults when built in release mode but not 
>> when -ggdb is used.
>> I've tried stripping the executable of debug data but I just cant get 
>> it to fail in the same way.
>>
>> Is there any way of building the whole project for release and 
>> generating a symbol-file I can use with gdb to backtrace the core dump ?
>> Tom
>
> what are the command lines?
> is -ggdb the only difference?
>
> Often, bugs pop up with optimization enabled (-O2 for example).
> You can try the exact release command line but with an added -ggdb
> and see if you can gdb the thing.
>
> HTH
> Cédric.
>

Everything is identical apart from the -ggdb.
Tom