So I was playing around with "libtool --mode=execute gdb binary" against random binaries in my /usr/local/bin on Mac OS X, when I spotted the following curious output against /usr/local/bin/gource ...

Preparing Your Program To make your program debuggable with GDB, compile it with debug symbols using the -g flag: gcc -g -o myapp myapp.c This embeds symbol information like function names, variable ...