Time to stop stripping binaries?

[Xin LI]

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On 2010/06/17 13:33, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Now that disks are big, can we stop stripping binaries by default?
> 
> I've worked up a patch that lets you set WITH_BINARY_SYMBOLS or
> WITHOUT_BINARY_SYMBOLS as you see fit.  We should commit it regardless
> of the outcome of this discussion (well, defaulting to yes or no
> depending on the outcome).
> 
> Why symbols: it makes core dumps easier to debug.
> Why no symbols: makes the system footprint bigger.
> 
> Since there's good arguments both ways, I thought I'd make this a
> knob.

I think this is a good idea.

A related quick question: is there any performance penalty if we ship
non-stripped binaries?  I think we would probably have to map the whole
image (including the symbols) into memory?

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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