On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Alessandro de Manzano wrote: > On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 12:00:05PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > Wow, thanks for the super-fast answer! :)) > > > > > on my production servers' kernel so in the very rare case of crash I'll > > > got a crash dump ( I'ld use also options DDB_UNATTENDED) and could > > > immediately have a backtrace report. > > > > > > ..Am I crazy ? :-)) > > > > I don't think you'll notice a difference for most stuff, this is how > > does the "-g" option (GCC option I guess) disable the "-O" optimizing > option ? > If "-g" simply attach the symbols and similar debug info to the > executable I guess the kernel should not be slower, but I don't know > GCC very well...
Note that the kernel binary with debugging symbols is left in /sys/compile/MYKERNEL/kernel.debug while the actual kernel is stripped before installation into /kernel. If the debugging kernel was actually loaded it would be gigantic :) This is all detailed in the Handbook section on kernel debugging, btw. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
