Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (default or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (default or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Ned Ludd
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (default or not?)

2005-11-27 Thread Ned Ludd
On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 23:42 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: Ned Ludd wrote: Good afternoon, Would you be willing to give up space in $ROOT/usr/lib/debug for ELF executables by default in order to aid in better debugging by or do we want to only emit it when a FEATURE= is defined.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (default or not?)

2005-11-26 Thread Ned Ludd
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