On 04/10/2011 01:51, William Oliveira Ferreira wrote:
On a Brazillian Lazarus Mailing List, someone asked once again how to reduce the executable's size generated by FPC/Lazarus. I've suggest him to generate a external debug symbol file on linking. That's help a lot with this issue, you know. But, Silvio and I have a little question: Why this isn't the default option? (Generate external debug symbol gdb). Could someone set it as default? It will reduce the amount of questions about the size of the executable.
I don't know if there are other reasons. but I think for once, it has to be tested.
That is, using it on Windows, or a new Linux distro with a new gdb version, probably works. But Lazarus still runs in environments, that are forced to use older gdb. So changing the default means to check that all those gdb versions will work with the changed defaults.
There may be other reasons, of which I am not aware..
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