A few years ago on the Busybox list I stumbled over... http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2012-September/078326.html http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2012-September/078331.html ...where "-fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables" CFLAGS were shown to reduce the filesize of builds. The Busybox people are building for constrained environments, so this is very important to them. I include those flags in my Gentoo linux config. I'm manually building and running the beta for the next version of Pale Moon (linux). A build without the flags produces a 43,262,332 byte tarball. With the flags, it's 40,528,597 bytes; approximately 2.7 megabytes smaller. I've suggested to the developers that they use these flags when building Pale Moon, but they have concerns about impacts on debugging. So my question is whether or not the flags "-fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables" make debugging harder. Has anything changed in that area in the past 4 years? -- Walter Dnes <waltdnes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
