From: noer@cygnus.com (Geoffrey Noer) Subject: Re: Experimental slangwin.tar.gz at deninc.com 15 Dec 1997 18:48:20 -0800 Message-ID: <199712160106.RAA12754.cygnus.gnu-win32@cirdan.cygnus.com> References: Content-Type: text To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Christopher Faylor wrote: [...] > This is the case with every version of cc or gcc that I've ever seen. > ld always puts symbols in the file unless you link with '-s'. When you > specify -g it only means that more debugging information may be placed > in the final executable. This extra information is usually things like > line number info and possibly symbol entries for static variables. [...] Also keep in mind that there are other object files that may contain debugging information (like crt0.o) which are linked in when you compile. -- Geoffrey Noer noer@cygnus.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".