[Vm-dev] XCode Target.
Mathieu Suen
mathk.sue at gmail.com
Wed Jan 16 23:34:07 UTC 2008
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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