westfw:
assumption was that debug information has to be stored into the final executable, thus making it bigger.
The .elf files becomes significantly swollen with debugging information, but it is all is separate linker sections that are easily stripped out when making the .hex files that actually load on the Arduino HW.
Thanks.
Then that debug information would be useful only for an arduino simulator that would use the elf instead of the hex. Am I right ? Because I still haven't read about gdb-ing arduino live code... (I hope someone can contradict me on this 