On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 19:30 +0100, Bruno wrote: [snip]
> What's the advantage of splitting out the debug info to some extra location > instead of leaving it in the original binary (maybe smaller foot-print in > memory while the debugging info is not used), Yes exactly a stripped binary will occupy less space in RAM. > and what tools are compatible > with this external debug info? gdb being the main one. With tools like valgrind you can simply do. LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/debug valgrind --foo ELF is cool like that. -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
