Thanks for all your replies! Daniel, > -g will not change what optimizations are run, or > code generated. > This is gcc policy. Lets say we remove all the debug information using elfutil's strip. Does the above imply that the stripped version will as good as a binary produced *without* using -g? It's great to know that -g doesn't tamper with the executable portion. Regards, Vishnu. __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/