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From: luc@spcc386.UUCP (Luc Rooijakkers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: relative value of stripping symbols
Summary: Symbols are only good for taking disk space :-)
Message-ID: <231@spcc386.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 89 10:51:59 GMT
References: <17615@cisunx.UUCP>
Reply-To: luc@spcc386.UUCP (Luc Rooijakkers)
Organization: SPC Company, Heeswijk-Dinther, the Netherlands
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In article <17615@cisunx.UUCP> jcbst3@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (James C. Benz) writes:
>Just a little question of some interest.  Suppose I have a C program that
>when compiled with the -g option (debugging symbols left in) (this is ATT
>Unix Sys V).  Does leaving these symbols in the file affect program 
>performance?

Not in any way that I know off. Actually, *some* symbol tables are always
included in your executable, unless you use strip(1) or the -s option to ld.
Any reasonable *IX kernel would just skip the symbol table information
when loading your program. So, the only price is in disk space.

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Luc Rooijakkers       luc@spcc386.UUCP  -or-  uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!spcc386!luc