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Re: reword documentation about symbol stripping


From: MK
Subject: Re: reword documentation about symbol stripping
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:19:20 -0500

On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:42:07 GMT
address@hidden (Karl Berry) wrote:
>     it addresses an issue that
>     some people may not know about, so maybe it would be good to
> briefly explain further?
> 
> I agree, thanks.  I changed the text to look like this:
> 
>   By default, the Make rules should compile and link with @samp{-g},
> so that executable programs have debugging symbols.  Otherwise, you
> are essentially helpless in the face of a crash, and it is often far
> from easy to reproduce with a fresh build.

Sigh. Make sure you *do not* really put my name in the Changelog, then,
because this is not at all what I was suggesting -- everyone who uses
make knows *what debugging symbols are for*.  

What they may not know, and what I did not know, was that *they do not
degrade performance* under normal conditions.  So congrats on a
pointless re-wording, hopefully someone can go through this again
later ;)

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