[Dwarf-Discuss] how to find local variable stored in register

[Daniel Berlin]

On Feb 5, 2008 7:14 PM, Jim Blandy <jimb at red-bean.com> wrote:
> On Feb 5, 2008 2:43 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false.org> wrote:
> > I think 16.1% of executable size is huge.  .debug_frame is normally,
> > what, 2-3% of executable size?
>
> Different organizations have different concerns.  I think it's a
> mistake for GCC to assume that a GiB is precious; it's not so for many
> real-world organizations.

Even at google, which has ungodly amounts of disk space, debug info
size is a serious concern.
This is more because of the network cost of propagating binaries
around than it is because they happen to take up some amount of local
disk.
I think it would be a huge mistake to assume because local disk is
cheap that debug info size doesn't matter.
If you ever end up having to propagate your binary to a datacenter
full of machines, or build on NFS, it matters a lot.