At 06:06 PM 1/15/2004 -0500, you wrote:
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 06:02:24PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >With that being said, I'll address the issue of symbol information: >1) If I include symbol information and there are no crashes, then people >will complain (don't argue with me, they *will* complain) about the size >of the download being X KB larger than it had to be. Newer versions of binutils allow you to split symbol information into a separate file which gdb understands. I've been meaning to release a version of gdb and binutils which can do this for a while and will probably do this as soon as I'm out from under my current mountain of work.
Another option is to generate a link map file when you do the final compile. It's just a text file of 4KB or so and you can manually reference the failing address from a stackdump into a routine name. For my commercial software I've found this is often enough to figure out what's wrong without worrying about distributing symbol files or the extra size associated with them.
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