Separate debug info for release builds
Henry Vermaak via fpc-pascal <[email protected]>
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When I add -Xg, the compiler writes the debug info into a separate .dbg file and adds a .gnu_debuglink section so the debugger can find the info. So far so good (and simpler than having the use objcopy). The size of the binary is much larger than building without debug info, though. E.g. with -O2 it goes from 35K to 188K. When I do exactly the same with gcc (via objcopy and strip), there's almost no difference between the stripped binary and a binary built without debugging info (even diffing objdump output). Can anyone explain why this is? Henry _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [email protected] https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal