Time to stop stripping binaries?

[Adrian Chadd]

On 23 June 2010 02:09, Garrett Cooper <gcooper at freebsd.org> wrote:

>> ISTR someone pointing out that there's a "magical" (ie, I don't
>> understand it) way to optionally have debugging symbols as extra
>> file(s), rather than having to ship extremely large shared libraries
>> by default.
>
>    See this link:
> http://old.nabble.com/-gcc--separate-debug-infos-td21591416.html .
> It's similar to what I've seen some internal groups do before in the
> past.

People-who-know-the-build-system-well, how hard would it be to build
libraries with this option?

People-who-know-binutils-and-gdb-and-relevant-libraries-well, what
magic needs to happen to teach programs about this? (eg gdb, gprof,
pmcstat, etc?)



Adrian