On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Varrun Ramani <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/10/26 Girish Venkatachalam <[email protected]> > >> >> -g is for generating debug symbols so you can use the executable with >> gdb(1). >> >> I did not understand what "debug symbols" is.Could you elucidate?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debug_symbol I have faced it sometimes that I need to give backtrace for certain files that have segfaulted. In that case, I needed to run it through gdb. But, to get any useful information it had to be compiled with debug symbols enabled. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
