Is debug enabled in userland?

joerg at britannica.bec.de joerg at britannica.bec.de
Thu Nov 24 03:22:16 PST 2005


On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 05:00:46PM -0800, walt wrote:
> 
> The second kind of debugging is very different.  If you compile programs
> using the -g compiler flag, the resulting executables will be a bit bigger
> because the 'debugging symbols' will be included as part of the final
> executable file.  This does *not* slow down your system because *no* extra
> code is executed while the program is running.  The only cost to you is a
> bit of extra disk space, which is cheap these days.

Try DEBUG_FLAGS=-g.

Joerg





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