Our release binaries are production builds which compile out all of the
following:
- debug symbols
- UT_ASSERTs
- UT_DEBUGMSGs
- etc.
There may also be platform-specific optimizations going on as well. As
usual, the net effect of all this is to speed up and shrink the size of
release builds.
If you'd rather have debugging information, you can always compile the
sources with ABI_OPT_DEBUG=1 as either a make argument or a command-line
variable. See abi/src/config/abi_defs.mk for more details.
Paul