On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 10:46:00AM +0000, Exim Users wrote:
> Including the symbol table makes the binary larger (and so, I guess,
> possibly its memory requirements: I can't remember).
The debugging information is in a different section in the ELF file (executable
binary format), it is a section in of DWARF (think Elf - getit?) format.
The program size might be bigger because less optimisation is being used.
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