There was some suggestion in the past that a JRE would not include symbols in it's RT.jar but a JDK would. For packaging reasons this apparently never happened though it has been often requested.
Mike On Apr 14 2014, at 01:41 , Erik Joelsson <erik.joels...@oracle.com> wrote: > Interesting question. I did a comparison of the total size of the images on > my Linux x64 workstation: > > current no-g all-g > j2sdk 303M 300M 314M > j2re 212M 209M 220M > > I should clarify that in langtools, -g is only added to the compilation of > the interim compiler, not the classes that get included in the actual product > (tools.jar). > > /Erik > > On 2014-04-11 19:47, Gary Adams wrote: >> What is the size difference? >> >> On 4/11/14, 10:53 AM, Chris Hegarty wrote: >>> On 11/04/14 15:40, Erik Joelsson wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> While converting the build to the new build-infra makefiles, one thing >>>> that annoyed me was the fact that we aren't consistently compiling with >>>> or without -g for java code. In the new makefiles we just emulate the >>>> same behavior, but I would like to sort it out properly now. >>>> >>>> Currently langtools, jaxp and jaxws repos build with -g always, while >>>> corba and jdk only build with -g when DEBUG_LEVEL is fastdebug or >>>> slowdebug. >>>> >>>> How would we really like this to work? Is there a reason not to ship >>>> with -g enabled? I know from personal experience that I get very annoyed >>>> when I can't step into the jdk classes and look at local variable values >>>> when debugging my own java applications. >>> >>> +1. >>> >>> I can understand that this may be different for actual product builds. >>> >>> -Chris. >>> >>>> >>>> /Erik >> >
