On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 10:53 +0100, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > 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.
See the objcopy manpage. Look for the --only-keep-debug section. The entire elf has to be mmaped before individual sections are mapped. -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
