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On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:02:32PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
  | I have had to rebuild programs because they get stripped during build.
  | That is bad news.  Also removing local symbols can give apparrantly
  | incorrect stack back-traces, so isn't particularly useful.

To be specific, the stripping is currently done by install(1).


  | It it also possible to do a reasonable amount of debugging with just
  | the standard symbol table - after all the most usable feature of gdb is
  | the 'bt' command on a core dump.

This is one of the core (sic :) reasons I want to change the default.



Luke.

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