On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 08:26:38PM -0400, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Brown wrote: > > I'd be interested to see some numbers on the archive size impact - my > > experience with C++ suggests that the size inflation caused by debug > > symbols can be enormous. > > I don't know about C++, but for C it depends. For example, aalib is a > 102 kb library that compresses to 44kb. Its debug symbols are 234 kb and > compress to 65 kb. > > OTOH, people rarely need full debugging information for aalib, it's > probably plenty to see its functions in the backtrace, and not have line > number info (bear in mind that line number info includes effectively the > entire source code of the program). So it I build it with -g1, the > debug symbols size drops to 48 kb and compresses to 14 kb.
Except that -g1 drops line numbers... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
