Why does configure.developer use -gstabs in Samba3?

[Tim Potter]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 14:29 +1000, James Peach wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there a good reason why configure.developer in Samba3 uses
> "-gstabs"? Would a simple "-g" be a sufficient replacement?

A particular version of gcc 3.x introduced support for the dwarf-2
debugging format which includes lots of debug info for cpp macros.  This
blew out the size of binaries built with plain -g to hundreds of
megabytes instead of the much more reasonable tens of megabytes.  (-:

Using -gstabs forces gcc to use the older format which doesn't allow cpp
macro debugging but produces much smaller debug binaries.


Tim.
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