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| author | David Bryant <david@davidcbryant.net> | 2022-12-20 09:26:41 -0600 |
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| committer | David Bryant <david@davidcbryant.net> | 2022-12-20 09:26:41 -0600 |
| commit | a613960c4be169277fa1192f2aa1d4a6c107e796 (patch) | |
| tree | 5f4e24923ff17128d3210e0cafce2911c096e717 | |
| parent | d15c80e1b48c272ccd5b4510c2c139bda30896bc (diff) | |
Removed redundant verbiage. Rewrote a very clumsy sentence.
To speak of a difference (implying subtraction) and a factor
(multiplication) as equivalent is confusing at best.
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter08/aboutdebug.xml | 17 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/chapter08/aboutdebug.xml b/chapter08/aboutdebug.xml index d646b797e..e9b90d64b 100644 --- a/chapter08/aboutdebug.xml +++ b/chapter08/aboutdebug.xml @@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ the debugger can provide not only memory addresses, but also the names of the routines and variables.</para> - <para>However, the inclusion of these debugging symbols enlarges a - program or library significantly. The following is an example of the + <para>The inclusion of these debugging symbols enlarges a + program or library significantly. Here are two examples of the amount of space these symbols occupy:</para> <itemizedlist> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ </listitem> <listitem> <para>A <command>bash</command> binary without debugging symbols: - 480 KB</para> + 480 KB (60% smaller)</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Glibc and GCC files (<filename class="directory">/lib</filename> @@ -36,15 +36,14 @@ symbols: 87 MB</para> </listitem> <listitem> - <para>Glibc and GCC files without debugging symbols: 16 MB</para> + <para>Glibc and GCC files without debugging symbols: 16 MB (82% smaller)</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> - <para>Sizes may vary depending on which compiler and C library were used, - but when comparing programs with and without debugging symbols, the - difference will usually be a factor between two and five.</para> - - <para>Because most users will never use a debugger on their system software, + <para>Sizes will vary depending on which compiler and C library were used, + but a program that has been stripped of debugging symbols is usually some + 50% to 80% smaller than its unstripped counterpart. + Because most users will never use a debugger on their system software, a lot of disk space can be regained by removing these symbols. The next section shows how to strip all debugging symbols from the programs and libraries.</para> |