debug symbol size

[Joe Buck]

> 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.