From: Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: I get the message "The program has no useable debugging information" when C programming
Date: 27 Oct 1998 18:09:53 GMT
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Chris Lambacher (lambacck AT mcmaster DOT ca) wrote:
: I am getting the error message "The program has no useable debugging
: information.  Try to compile it with the -g switch".  This occurs in RHIDE
: v1.4 when programming in C.  I have the -g switch enabled and I am using
: more than one source for this program.  This has never happened to me
: before.  This is also the first time I have used multiple source files.
: Any help would be appreciated.

Are you sure you are not using the "-s" flag during the linking phase?
"-s" tells the linker to strip (remove debugging information) the
executable. 


Right,

							MartinS