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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD striping the debug info from the kernel Date: 22 Jun 1996 11:54:48 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4qgmu8$q31@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4psneo$p9h@hermes.athenet.net> <4pv2a1$84e@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4q20nt$l9o@raven.und.ac.za> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E tony@beastie.cs.und.ac.za (Tony Harverson) wrote: > : No, it ain't. ``strip -d kernel'' would be the right thing. > > Besides the saving in disk space, is there any advantage to stripping > the kernel ? Only if your kernel has actual symbolic debug information (i.e. you've either used ``config -g'', or manually added the -g option to the CFLAGS in your kernel Makefile). In this case, all kernel symbols will be loaded into the physical memory at boot time, for the sake of the kernel debugger. For kernels that don't have debug info, strip -d is a do-nothing. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)