Huge Increase in Unstripped Executable Size G++ 2.95 to 3.2

[Devang Patel]

On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 08:07 AM, Jim Wilson wrote:

> On a completely different tack, another way to reduce the impact of
> debug info is to not put it in the final executable, and modify the
> debugger to read debug info from the object files.  Sun has done this
> for a long time with stabs.  There is some work at Red Hat being done 
> to
> try do the same thing for DWARF2.  This makes linking faster, and gives
> smaller executables with no debug info at all, but makes debugging a 
> bit
> slower.

This seems very much like what we are doing here at Apple for STABS.
We call it Symbol Separation.

-Devang