relative value of stripping symbols

[Luc Rooijakkers]

In article <17615 at cisunx.UUCP> jcbst3 at unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (James C. Benz) writes:
>Just a little question of some interest.  Suppose I have a C program that
>when compiled with the -g option (debugging symbols left in) (this is ATT
>Unix Sys V).  Does leaving these symbols in the file affect program 
>performance?

Not in any way that I know off. Actually, *some* symbol tables are always
included in your executable, unless you use strip(1) or the -s option to ld.
Any reasonable *IX kernel would just skip the symbol table information
when loading your program. So, the only price is in disk space.

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