On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 09:39 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > Now the questions: > > First: Is this kind of providing separate debug files applicable only > for library or also for applications? Yes you can have debug file for applications too. > > Second: How do I create such .debug files with debug information only? I > find that these debug files are not executables. any binary/library compiled with debug flag are with debugging information. I believe .debug in your example will be linked to the file that the application will link. Ex. libQtGui.so -> libQtGui.so.4.2.3.debug Cheers, Vadi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html