OT: Why -g when compiling

Erno Kuusela erno-news at erno.iki.fi
Wed Dec 24 16:29:26 EST 2003


Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> writes:

> I don't know if the various linkers around are smart enough to
> not load debugging information until it's asked for...

afaik the dynamic linker (or kernel) never loads the debugging info,
that' be the job of the debugger. the debugging info gets put in a
separate section in the binary.

  -- erno




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