Ups, I am afraid now I have an other question. What is a Symbols? (I guess is the name of the C function)
Thanks
On Jan 17, 2008, at 12:13 AM, John M McIntosh wrote:
Originally it was there to build a deployment VM that include symbols so you could do debugging easier. Occasionally you would build a VM that would work in debug mode, but not in deployment, or work on powerpc but not on intel. Usually this was a problem with optimization not doing zero initialization of variables, or not returning zero where you said return nothing via int foo(){} but then used the return value.
In the past the VM had the symbols stripped, but I'm not sure this is the case anymore, you could check? Apple now recommends you keep the symbols because it does not affect performance, it does take extra memory, but memory is cheap now.
On Jan 16, 2008, at 2:53 PM, Mathieu Suen wrote:
Hi
A small question for those who use XCode to build the VM. What is the used of the DeploymentSymbols target?
Thanks Mth
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