Re: stripping kde libs and binaries

Jan Schäfer <[email protected]> Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:26:13 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.devel.optimize
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On Tuesday 19 October 2004 18:43, Juergen Pfennig wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 October 2004 12:53, CPH wrote:
> > What about also running the strip command on libs and binaries ?
>
> I asked that a while ago and the common opinion was that in general
> binaries should not be stripped (Dr. Konqui would no longer provide usefull
> tracebacks).
>
> ***
>
> Personally I would like stripped binaries. It is quite rare that apps that
> crash produce a usefull traceback; and who would like to analyze them?
> There are too many binary versions of KDE around.
That is not true.  A traceback gives most of the time valuable information 
about the reason of the crash.

> Most bugs do not crash applications - they simple cause wrong behaviour and
> this would not be influenced by stripped files.
This might be true, but crash bugs belong to the worst bugs.

Greetings,

 Jan