[Gllug] My and my malloc() problems....

[Pete Ryland]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 10:18:44PM +0000, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> >yes i know that, but with -ggdb on solaris, i do seem to recall
> >program binaries being much larger
> 
> Yes, the on disk size is larger, but if I understand things correctly,
> the memory usage of the program shouldn't be affected. The debugging
> symbols aren't actually loaded unelss you're actually running the
> program under a debugger.
> 
> Which is not to say I haven't seen different behaviour between programs
> compiled with -g and without -- I have (yes, with gcc), which makes
> debugging *really* difficult at times :-)

I've never seen this phenomenon myself, but what happens if you compile with
-g and then strip(1) the debugging stuff?

Pete
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