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Steve M. Bay
Steve M. Bay

Reputation: 313

How to move gcc debug symbols outside from .so and .a files?

as far as I know, objcopy is able to move debug symbols (compiled with -g flag) outside from an executable binary. I found this question, but there are only generic methods for symbol outsourcing.

But what can I do when my executable is using some really large .so and .a files?

I would like to profile my application in a small environment where is not enough place for the debug symbols. The entire project was built with -g option. The debug symbols are needed later only when the profile log is processed.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 822

Answers (1)

erenon
erenon

Reputation: 19128

You can strip debug symbols:

strip --strip-debug object.so

Upvotes: 1

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