{"id":6636,"date":"2020-02-05T00:25:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T23:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=6636"},"modified":"2020-02-05T00:25:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T23:25:05","slug":"oh-debug-symbols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2020\/02\/05\/oh-debug-symbols\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, debug symbols"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I forgot how big an executable can become when you compile it with debug symbols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was recompiling IfcOpenShell. For a moment my 16Gb, 12core machine froze. Well, an executable of six hundred, thirty five millions of bytes!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

paolo@rigel:\/mnt\/dati\/paolo\/src\/IfcOpenShell\/build\/Linux\/x86_64\/install\/ifcopenshell\/bin$ file *\nIfcConvert: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter \/lib64\/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=4aedda5d6f5398c7692e05e99cad2384cf90c992, for GNU\/Linux 3.2.0, with debug_info, not stripped\nIfcGeomServer: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter \/lib64\/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=1b6d02232a0994d7c4cb07c08a56543a1e7849d1, for GNU\/Linux 3.2.0, with debug_info, not stripped\npaolo@rigel:\/mnt\/dati\/paolo\/src\/IfcOpenShell\/build\/Linux\/x86_64\/install\/ifcopenshell\/bin$ du -h *\n635M IfcConvert<\/strong>\n413M IfcGeomServer<\/strong>\npaolo@rigel:\/mnt\/dati\/paolo\/src\/IfcOpenShell\/build\/Linux\/x86_64\/install\/ifcopenshell\/bin$ strip *\npaolo@rigel:\/mnt\/dati\/paolo\/src\/IfcOpenShell\/build\/Linux\/x86_64\/install\/ifcopenshell\/bin$ du -h *\n52M IfcConvert\n42M IfcGeomServer<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I forgot how big an executable can become when you compile it with debug symbols. I was recompiling IfcOpenShell. For a moment my 16Gb, 12core machine froze. Well, an executable of six hundred, thirty five millions of bytes! paolo@rigel:\/mnt\/dati\/paolo\/src\/IfcOpenShell\/build\/Linux\/x86_64\/install\/ifcopenshell\/bin$ file * IfcConvert: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter \/lib64\/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2,…<\/p>\n
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