Building with WITH_DEBUG (-g) in make.conf

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Tue Sep 4 15:53:44 UTC 2012


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On 4 September 2012 05:26, Jake Smith <jake at avenue22.net> wrote:
> Hi,

> It got me thinking, is there any reason why it would be a bad idea to build
> all my ports with debug symbols from now on?

> Are there any performance hits

Yes. Code size grows and the flags may enable internal
debugging in the program itself.

> or security risks with this?

no.


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Eitan Adler


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