Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 07:38:15AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 08:26:38PM -0400, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> > Mark Brown wrote:
> > > I'd be interested to see some numbers on the archive size impact - my
> > > experience with C++ suggests that the size inflation caused by debug
> > > symbols can be enormous.
> >
> > I don't know about C++, but for C it depends. For example, aalib is a
> > 102 kb library that compresses to 44kb. Its debug symbols are 234 kb and
> > compress to 65 kb.
> >
> > OTOH, people rarely need full debugging information for aalib, it's
> > probably plenty to see its functions in the backtrace, and not have line
> > number info (bear in mind that line number info includes effectively the
> > entire source code of the program). So it I build it with -g1, the
> > debug symbols size drops to 48 kb and compresses to 14 kb.
>
> Except that -g1 drops line numbers...
Wasn't that Joey's point?
cheers,
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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