From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 15:34:39 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] new kernel patch (relative to 2.4.18) Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:57:20 +0200, Andreas Schwab said: Andreas> n0ano@indstorage.com writes: |> Yoav- |> |> Simple answer: Andreas> Yes, it can be safely removed. |> |> Longer answer: David Andreas> likes to use `gdb' to track down bugs, it makes life |> Andreas> easier to take a fault address and use `gdb' to find the Andreas> exact source line |> that caused the error. I personally Andreas> don't like the size of the boot image |> file that this Andreas> creates so one of the first things I've always done after Andreas> |> applying all of the IA64 patches is remove this flag. Andreas> Use it or not, |> whatever you prefer. Andreas> Or just use "strip -g". Or "make compressed", which will give you vmlinux (with debug info), and vmlinux.gz (without debug info). --david