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From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
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In-reply-to: <200604121538.k3CFc9Mm005686@mailhub.lss.emc.com> (message from 	David Taylor on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:38:09 -0400)
Subject: Re: stabs vs dwarf (was: Re: Wrong address for static function in linux module )
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> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:38:09 -0400
> From: David Taylor <dtaylor@emc.com>
> 
> A full build tree (build products only, no sources) is 8.7 GB with
> STABS, but 24.6 GB when built with -gdwarf-2 -feliminate-dwarf2-dups.

You know if you compiled without debug information, your build tree
would be even smaller.  What matters is whether the debug info is
actually usable.  For unoptimized C code, stabs is probably fine.  But
for heavily optimized C++ code, it will be unusable.

Mark