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Re: How to use -dbg packages?



Le ven 25 août 2006 19:04, Ritesh Raj Sarraf a écrit :
> David Martínez Moreno on Friday 25 Aug 2006 15:32 wrote:
> > Yes.  You simply crash KDE (easy if you use KMail and IMAP) and
> > drkonqui (the crash handler) will take advantage of installed
> > debugging symbols in order to provide a more complete backtrace.
>
> Just out of curiosity, does installation of the -dbg packages affect
> the performance of the application in normal use ?

No, it's only used by gdb to translate the symbols. -dbg packages are 
just the symbols from the binaries that are stripped into separate 
files, to avoid bloating of the binaries. Then, IIRC, a GNUism is used 
to tell to gdb where those symbols are (when they are installed) that's 
all.
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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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