On 04/11/16 14:55, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 7:39 AM, Nick Craig-Wood <n...@craig-wood.com> wrote: >> I know I can build go binaries passing the `-s` flag to the linker to >> strip them and make them smaller. In my tests (with rclone) it makes it >> 60% of the size so a significant saving. I'd like to enable this for >> binaries I distribute to end users. >> >> go install -ldflags "-s" >> >> However what are the consequences? The link docs say what it does but >> not what the consequences are. >> >> https://golang.org/cmd/link/ >> >> -s >> Omit the symbol table and debug information. >> >> I can see that I still get source code lines in my backtraces which is >> very important to me but what am I losing? Why wouldn't I want to do this? > > You won't be able to run gdb or various other non-Go-specific tools.
Thanks. If that is the only consequence than I'm good with that. Anyone who wants to run gdb can compile their own binary. -- Nick Craig-Wood <n...@craig-wood.com> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
