Re: Which editor for C/C++ programming, and more...

[Aidan Skinner <aidan skinner demon co uk>]

Elliot Lee writes:
 > On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Dave Reed wrote:

 > > Interesting, I didn't know that.  So only when you're using the
 > > debugger are the symbols loaded?
 > 
 > Or rather, "the debugger is the only program that makes an effort to load
 > the symbol information".

For the ELF format anyway. I would imagine that this behaviour would
depend on your executable format.

 > If you are comparing size, you should probably just use the 'size' command
 > to get a better measurement.

This is true.

However a lot of people use ls -sh...

OTOH a lot of people have no idea how to benchmark something properly
(I certainly don't, but I know that I'm lacking the almighty k100[1] in
this case ;>)

- Aidan

[1] Not that this hasn't stopped me spouting off on stuff I know
nothing about before, but not around people who *do* know...

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