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List: ros-dev
Subject: [ros-dev] Symbol handling
From: "Ge van Geldorp" <gvg () reactos ! com>
Date: 2005-05-29 20:04:25
Message-ID: 200505292004.j4TK4Pqa008397 () mailhost ! geldorp ! nl
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> From: Alex Ionescu
>
> Because it takes people on 56K modems 4 more hours to
> download the ISO.
Call me spoiled, but I don't think we should limit ourselves by the
possibilities of 56K modems.
> Because it makes the installation media much larger; gone is
> the possibility to give off cool looking ROS CDs on those
> "business card sized" CDs or other similar media.
Right... How many of these have we given away?
> >The rsym section can be NOLOAD so there is no memory bloat.
>
> Please elaborate...do we support NOLOAD?
Yes
> Is it marked as NOLOAD?
Yes
> I doubt it, because when I boot ReactOS DBG it's
> using 50MB of memory.
That's because the symbol handling code now goes in and reads the rossym
section. It's not the loader, it's the symbol handling code.
> I'm merely asking for RELEASE builds to be just that
> *release* builds.
And that sounds reasonable when we get at ReactOS 1.0. Until that time, the
more debug info available, the better.
> You want them to have symbols built-in the files. I'm saying
> that it forces *everyone* to have 64MB computers.
No, it doesn't. There's a difference between including the symbols in the
files and loading them into memory.
Gé van Geldorp
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