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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion
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On 1/15/06, Olivier Cr=EAte <tester@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Why not use the splitdebug instead of nostrip? And make building with -=
g
> the default, then tell small HD users how to disable it in the docs. An=
d
> it needs to disable -fomit-frame-pointer at least on x86. I've been
> building my whole system with splitdebug and yes it does take a lot of
> space, but its really useful.

No argument against splitdebug, but my guess is that it would be
useless for 99.97% of users, and would lead to complaints on -user
about how much disk space gentoo consumes compared to <insert least
favorite distribution here>, so it should not be the default.

-Richard

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