Solved "with debug symbols activated" ?

[mikethe1wheelnut]

In the handbook, https://docs.freebsd.org/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-bsdinstall.html, there is mention of

- base-dbg - Base tools like cat, ls among many others with debug symbols activated.

-- "with debug symbols activated" -could somebody give some examples of these debug symbols? In context? Would these be relevant to a first-time user? It's not like I would be doing any development on the system, not for a while..

 

[SirDice]

-could somebody give some examples of these debug symbols? In context?

Don't have an example at hand but the bottom line is that you get to see the actual function names from the code instead of memory addresses. Variables etc. are also 'decoded'. This makes debugging a lot easier because you can clearly tell which parts from the source code the machine language is executing or accessing.

Would these be relevant to a first-time user?

Nope. They're only interesting if you plan on debugging the base OS tools and applications. They're not going to make a difference when you use the system.

It's not like I would be doing any development on the system, not for a while..

You can install them later on when you need them.