Discourage stripping symbols in devtools

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Jubilee Young 2024-04-01 13:50:29 -07:00
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@ -557,8 +557,10 @@ Supported values for this option are:
using a debugger like gdb or lldb ineffectual.
- `symbols` - same as `debuginfo`, but the rest of the symbol table section is
stripped as well if the linker supports it. On platforms which depend on the
binary's symbol table for backtraces, this can affect them so negatively as to
make the trace completely incomprehensible.
binary's symbol table for backtraces, profiling, and similar, this can affect
them so negatively as to make the results completely incomprehensible.
Programs which may be combined with others, using e.g. CLI pipelines, or any
developer tooling whatsoever, should avoid stripping symbols for this reason.
## symbol-mangling-version