From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:44:32 GMT
Subject: Re: git binary size...
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601111134560.5073@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <43C558FB.3030102@op5.se>



On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
> 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