Re: makeoptions    DEBUG="-g"      # compile full symbol table


On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 07:20:38PM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:14:52PM -0800, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> 
> > by itself, it doesn't.  the build process builds netbsd.gdb and then
> > strips it, and that's the kernel you run.  (the stripped version.)
> 
> Um... you sure about that?  Most of the time even after stripping the
> code, it's still slower, unless the kernel tells gcc something that
> makes it otherwise.

all makeoptions does is pass extra flags to gcc invocations when
compiling.  it doesn't change any of the compiled code -- just adds the
debugging symbols.

on the other hand,

options DEBUG

pulls in extra code, which could definitely slow things down.

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