On 16/02/16 11:42, Levente Polyak wrote: > ==> 0x00: Summary > > I think this looks kind of useful, minidebug enabled binaries could help > debugging and understanding certain type of crashes without the need of > rebuilding and install full debug symbols. >
Thanks for taking a look at this. <snip> > > ==> 0x04: Strange observations > > Besides the package firefox, where the minidebug option had no effect at > all, there was some strange effect while testing the mplayer package. > > The mplayer and memcoder binaries significantly increase in size while > having missing .gnu_debugdata sections. As there may be more cases > affected by this issue, it should maybe be investigated before > considering to enable this by default. > > 1) mplayer 26.95% > 17M 17333304 > 21M 22005264 > > 2) mencoder 25.96% > 16M 16105880 > 20M 20286256 Whether this option is enabled or not by a distribution (including Arch) is not an issue to be discussed here. What worries me about this is that this is a sign of a bug in the implementation (particularly the lack of a .gnu_debugdata section). I'm going to need this case investigate before this gets pulled into makepkg. A
