On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 7:19 AM, Edgar Pettijohn <ed...@pettijohn-web.com> wrote: > On 16-07-03 22:12:34, Philip Guenther wrote: ... >> Heh. Part of me wants to admonish you again for turning a knob you >> didn't have a reason to turn, but part of me wants to thank you for >> demonstrating that this particular knob is broken and should be >> removed... > > You're welcome. I was really trying to figure out what they were for. I'm > guessing > if you have a program that is buggy you could rebuild it with the debug libs > for > more debugging power. Or no?
In theory, yes, but practice doesn't really match. We now compile libs with -g by default, so there was little difference between the debug and normal static libs: the debug libs had 'file' symbols for the syscall stubs, but it's not obvious if they had any real effect on debugger behavior for application developers. Philip Guenther
