On 26/11/2005 13:55:25, Ned Ludd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 19:30 +0100, Bruno wrote: > > > 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.
I may be wrong, but I don't think this is true. As I understand it, debug sections aren't part of the PT_LOAD segments so the loader won't load them into memory. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
