FreeBSD 7.0

[Bruce Cran]

Maxim Khitrov wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Kris Kennaway <kris at freebsd.org> wrote:
>   
>> Rudi Kramer - MWEB wrote:
>>  > I did some digging and found it on the main ftp server:
>>  > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/7.0/
>>  >
>>  > Rudi
>>
>>  People always try to get the jump on the official release announcement,
>>  but don't consider that until the email arrives in your mailbox saying
>>  it is released then the ISO images etc are subject to last minute change
>>  without notice.  Use at your own risk :)
>>
>>  Kris
>>     
>
> Just curious - is there a reason why the generic kernel is still being
> built with debug symbols? I thought that was only used during the
> pre-release phase.
>   

WITNESS and INVARIANTS are enabled before the pre-release phase (i.e 
before -BETA)
- as far as I know debug symbols are always generated by default, and 
are dumped into /boot/kernel
as separate files.  They don't hurt performance (unlike witness and 
invariants) and are useful in a
few situations, one of which is if you ever get a panic.

--
Bruce