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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:48:08 +0100
From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO
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>The usual use case is that you only need it on disk for your gdb,
>but not in RAM.

If you care about gdb, you'd be building with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO anyway, and get the same information in .debug_frames
(which already is a noload section) without the need to enable CONFIG_UNWIND_INFO.

Jan