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| -rw-r--r-- | src/doc/rustc/src/codegen-options/index.md | 7 |
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diff --git a/src/doc/rustc/src/codegen-options/index.md b/src/doc/rustc/src/codegen-options/index.md index 4a4f1ae98e4..5667f0e02ce 100644 --- a/src/doc/rustc/src/codegen-options/index.md +++ b/src/doc/rustc/src/codegen-options/index.md @@ -553,9 +553,12 @@ Supported values for this option are: of MSVC). - `debuginfo` - debuginfo sections and debuginfo symbols from the symbol table section are stripped at link time and are not copied to the produced binary - or separate files. + or separate files. This should leave backtraces mostly-intact but may make + using a debugger like gdb or lldb ineffectual. - `symbols` - same as `debuginfo`, but the rest of the symbol table section is - stripped as well if the linker supports it. + stripped as well if the linker supports it. On platforms which depend on the + binary's symbol table for backtraces, this can affect them so negatively as to + make the trace completely incomprehensible. ## symbol-mangling-version |