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Re: git binary size...

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Jan 11, 2006, 19:44 UTC
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On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
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> strip:
> 	strip $(PROGRAMS)
> 
> install: strip

Well, that ends up shaving some more from the binaries, but at a much bigger cost than just removing "-g".

With stripped binaries, you can't really do _anything_. You get a core-file, and you're screwed.

With non-stripped binaries you can at least see the function the SIGSEGV happened in, and you usually even get a half-way decent backtrace etc.

		Linus
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