Re: [Dev-C++] Debug

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

strip removes comments and type information from the binary.

For a reliease build, there is very little garbage that may be removed
from the binary. For a debug build, huge amounts of extra data is stored
in the binary - path and name to all source files, data types and
addresses of all variables, names and parameter information for all
functions etc, etc.

/Per W

On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Alfred P. Reaud wrote:

> What does strip executable actually do?  I use this option during a
> compile for a release, along with full optimizations.  However it only
> seems to decrease the executable size minimally.
>
> --- Martin Doucha <nex...@qu...> wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > Make sure that Strip executable is set to No because it overrides
> > both
> > debugging and profiling information settings. Also make sure that you
> >
> > completely rebuild the project because if you do not, the debugging
> > information will be incomplete and useless.
> <snip>
>
>
> Alfred P. Reaud