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--- makefile	(revision 47623017a2217e9514cfa12d5cf3eb3a2488a5bb)
+++ makefile	(revision 9d4456b979eb6e6357d2e61f498ab7921be98c58)
@@ -2,4 +2,9 @@
 CC = g++
 CFLAGS = -std=c++0x -Wall -pedantic -rdynamic
+# -rdynamic is to generate debug info for dynamic symbols on debian-based 
+# systems (tested on Linux Mint)
+# for OSX, using -g generates a newgame.dSYS directory which has debug symbols.
+# However, this has no effect on the stack trace, so there must be a way to specify a *.dSYS directory when running ./newgame
+# or to instead put thos symbols directly into the executable, like -rdynamic does for Linux
 #-Wextra -fno-inline