On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
>
> > > What gives? Also, what's the difference between no options and -g?
> >
> > information about line number positions in the source code
> >
> > > After all, what gets stripped if -g isn't used?
> >
> > relation between addresses and symbols. That is, if you are looking at a
> > memory dump of the executable, what is the name of these locations that
> > the code loads data from or jumps to?
>
> So put another way, for debugging purposes:
>
> gcc Okay... gives names and symbols
> gcc -s Useless (no symbols)
> gcc -g Only truly useful with source code files
-g is preferred.
> Am I right?
For debugging, most of us would prefer to look at source code when using
gdb, unless you are a "Real Programmer(TM)". Still, knowing what symbols
were near the point of execution when the program died (no option) is
better than nothing (-s), and is more compact than shipping out the source
code everywhere the binary is located.. :)
But I thought this began with a question about stripped (production)
binaries.
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