[gofrontend-dev] Re: Go patch committed: Don't strip Go programs

[Matthias Klose]

On 02/27/2015 04:59 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 7:21 AM,  <laboger@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>> As discussed in this bugzilla, the debug info from libgo should not be
>> stripped or some things won't work as documented, like runtime.Callers. Is
>> that information documented anywhere so that anyone who builds gccgo and
>> libgo and provides it to others is aware of this?
> 
> I'm not aware of any documentation specifically saying that libgo
> should not be stripped.  Do you have any suggestions as to where that
> should go?

is there anything which could be stripped without scarifying functionality?
Linux distributions usually strip things by default, so a hint what exactly is
needed to keep the functionality would be appreciated.

thanks, Matthias