Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 13:30:37 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Why does gcc make such big binaries?
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On Thu, 22 May 1997, John M. Aldrich wrote:

> But at that point, wouldn't people start complaining that they are
> unable to symify or debug their programs?  IMHO, '-s' removes so much
> functionality from the executable that it's not worth it to specify as
> default.

You cannot debug seriously if you didn't say -g.  (I don't think many
people would use assembly-level debugging, at least not those who
complain about the size.)  As for `symify', those who complain don't
even know what that is.

In general, I think that since we distribute pre-built binaries
stripped, we don't care much about `symify' anyhow.

BC, for example, doesn't add any debugging info unless you use a
switch analogous to -g.