From 1dcaf70c0e114aabb116114dac521f1014204527 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jubilee Young <workingjubilee@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 14:13:56 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Note -Cstrip is not a security measure

---
 src/doc/rustc/src/codegen-options/index.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/doc/rustc/src/codegen-options/index.md b/src/doc/rustc/src/codegen-options/index.md
index 0f96f6cb2bc..c8f5d649570 100644
--- a/src/doc/rustc/src/codegen-options/index.md
+++ b/src/doc/rustc/src/codegen-options/index.md
@@ -561,6 +561,10 @@ Supported values for this option are:
   Programs which may be combined with others, such as CLI pipelines and developer tooling,
   or even anything which wants crash-reporting, should usually avoid `-Cstrip=symbols`.
 
+Note that, at any level, removing debuginfo only necessarily impacts "friendly" introspection.
+`-Cstrip` cannot be relied on as a meaningful security or obfuscation measure, as disassemblers
+and decompilers can extract considerable information even in the absence of symbols.
+
 ## symbol-mangling-version
 
 This option controls the [name mangling] format for encoding Rust item names