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Subject: Re: C23 thoughts and opinions
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:07:33 -0500
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On 6/13/2024 7:14 AM, Bonita Montero wrote:
> Am 08.06.2024 um 07:04 schrieb BGB:
> 
>> One merit of using separate files is that one doesn't need to 
>> recompile to remove the debugging data.
> 
> If you're doing a release compile you'd have to re-compile anyway.
> 

A lot of people release debug builds but with the debugging data absent 
(say, to try to reduce risk of decompilation and similar).

Whether or not this is ideal, depends.

One possible justification (albeit a weak one) is that if one recompiles 
the program with optimizations turned on, in many cases this may subtly 
change the behavior of the program (particularly in relation to things 
like the contents of uninitialized variables and dangling pointers, 
etc...). Where, sometimes, one may find that the program was only 
working because the correct data just so happened to be at the right 
place on the stack, and changing the compiler settings may disrupt this 
balance...