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On 26/11/2005 13:55:25, Ned Ludd (solar@g.o) wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 19:30 +0100, Bruno wrote: |
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> > What's the advantage of splitting out the debug info to some extra |
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> > location instead of leaving it in the original binary (maybe smaller |
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> > foot-print in memory while the debugging info is not used), |
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> Yes exactly a stripped binary will occupy less space in RAM. |
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I may be wrong, but I don't think this is true. As I understand it, |
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debug sections aren't part of the PT_LOAD segments so the loader won't |
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load them into memory. |
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