[ros-dev] Symbol handling

[Ge van Geldorp]

>   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