On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 02:16:55PM -0400, Joseph S wrote:
> I thought the performance penalty came from making the executable
> bigger, which means the executor has to skip over the debug symbols
> somehow, which eats up cpu. If the symbols are in a different file this
> wouldn't apply.
When running the executable is mmaped into memory. So any extra data in
the executable has absolutly zero effect.
> Well I don't really know how debug symbols work. It seems that maybe
> all the debug info is is the source files with some mappling info then
> maybe it might.
No, the info is in the debug info (gdb can't be expected to understand
the source of every language you might want to debug).
Have a nice day,
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