In reply to Justin Mason's flatulent wordings,
>> "John P. Looney" said:
>> > Just compiled up Oscar (public key server) there. C++ software.
> > Accidentally left the -g flag in the compile line. It generated a 30MB
> > static library and a 13MB shared library. Wow. That's impressive. Took out
> > the -g option, and it came down to ~2MB.
> >
> > Anyone know why C++ has so much extra debugging stuff in there, compared
> > to C ?
>> Name-mangled symbols; the types for each class and arg type will be
> mangled into function and variable names. Without -g, the names are
> stripped out. I'd say that'd be it.
Doubtful, a name mangled symbol usually adds about an extra character for the
return type and each argument type, the average symbol is only a few
characters longer than the equivalent C symbol, and I'm fairly certain that
those symbols are put in unstripped binaries compiled without the -g option.
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