epeisach@athena.mit.edu (Ezra Peisach) (06/03/91)
I was wondering what would be the affects of compiling the kernel on a DECstation with the LDOPTS=-x option. This is used in the generic kernel to reduce the size of the symbol table by removing non global references and presumably allow the kernel to fit on smaller install media. I was wondering if there were any ill effects compiling a production kernel this way. My guess is not as only programs that need to grovel the kernel memory need the symbol table. Such programs include ps, crash, pstat, etc. From what I can tell, they appear to be safe, but is there any way to be sure? Anyone else ever try this? Anyone have any opinions? I release try trying to debug a crash dump would be harder, but I'm not too concerned about it. Ezra