On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:52:46 +0100 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, if the binaries are not stripped, they consume more memory. I'm still convinced this is untrue (apart from disk space). Debug symbols are not part of the executable view. The kernel & loader map PT_LOAD sections, which do not include the debug symbols. Indeed debug segments don't have a load address, so the loader won't know where to put them if it does. Compare and contrast the output of 'readelf -l' (which shows the program headers - in particular look at the PT_LOAD sections) and 'readelf -s' (which shows all segments). If any one can point me to code in the kernel or loader that maps debug symbol sections I'm sure many would be interested. -- Kevin F. Quinn -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
