Re: [Leaf-devel] Stripping binaries

[David D. <ss...@ma...>]

jdn...@dc... wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, David Douthitt wrote:

> > What gives?  Also, what's the difference between no options and -g?
> 
> information about line number positions in the source code
> 
> > After all, what gets stripped if -g isn't used?
> 
> relation between addresses and symbols. That is, if you are looking at a
> memory dump of the executable, what is the name of these locations that
> the code loads data from or jumps to?

So put another way, for debugging purposes:

gcc           Okay... gives names and symbols
gcc -s        Useless (no symbols)
gcc -g        Only truly useful with source code files

Am I right?