On Tuesday, January 8, 2019, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 11:46:41PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote: > > > At some point apps are going to become so insanely large that not even > > disabling debug info will help. > > That's less likely, I'd say. Debug info *is* getting incredibly more and > more complex for the same amount of executable weight, and linking that > is making things worse and worse. But having enough code to actually be > a problem without debug info is probably not so close. > > It's a slow boil problem, taken 10 years to get bad, another 10 years to get really bad. Needs strategic planning. Right now things are not exactly being tackled except in a reactive way, which unfortunately takes time as everyone is volunteers. Exacerbates the problem and leaves drastic "solutions" such as "drop all 32 bit support".
> There are solutions to still keep full debug info, but the Debian > packaging side doesn't support that presently: using split-dwarf. It > would probably be worth investing in supporting that. > > Sounds very reasonable, always wondered why debug syms are not separated at build/link, would buy maybe another decade? -- --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
