[Gllug] Getting technical about email

[Mike Brodbelt]

Nix wrote:
> 
> Debug symbols are stored in sections which are not mapped to segments,
> so they are never loaded (except by the debugger, which digs around
> inside the binary directly, using libbfd).

That's interesting - I'd assumed they were mapped. In that case their
only negative would be the disk overhead, and presumably a small
(probably insignificant) performance degradation due to the ELF loader
doing its thing?

Mike
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