title: What are the disadvantages of discarding symbols?
body: <p>the program <code>strip</code> on GNU/Linux (<a href="http://linux.die.net/man/1/strip" rel="nofollow">man</a>) allows you to discard symbols from object files or executables. By doing this you gain a smaller file size.</p>
  
  <p>So my question is what are the trade-offs of discarding the symbols?</p>