[Interest] debug symbols in OSX application builds

[Thiago Macieira]

On segunda-feira, 1 de agosto de 2016 12:36:32 PDT Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> I have tracked this down to macdeployqt, which is running strip on my 
> binary. However it is also running strip on the Qt frameworks, yet its 
> symbol names survive?

They have to. You're calling them.

More specifically: most some symbols were removed, but some remain. Those 
symbols about exported functions and variables need to remain visible, so they 
remain. Since your application is not called by other modules (quite by 
definition), all symbols are stripped.

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