[2] To avoid this extra size, most operating system distributions ship binaries that are stripped, i.e. from which all of the debugging symbols have been removed.
Similarly, the Binder and linkage editors have a TEST option that causes the debug information to be retained[6] in the load module.
The WinDbg debugger and the Visual Studio IDE can be configured to automatically download debug symbols for Windows dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) on demand.
The PDB debug symbols that Microsoft distributes include only public functions, global variables and their data types.
On Apple platforms, debug symbols are optionally emitted during the build process as dSYM files.
Apple uses the term "symbolicate" to refer to the replacement of addresses in diagnostic files with human readable values.