Note on compiling target

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 I fully expect this only to work on Linux. 
 
 This is a more detailed version of the code I wrote in my [Debuggers From Scratch talk at dotGo Paris](https://youtu.be/TBrv17QyUE0).
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+## A note on compiling the target executable
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+You may find it helpful to compile your target excutable with `gcflags="-N -l"` to turn off compiler optimization and in-lining (otherwise you might find that the symbol table doesn't appear to know about code where you expect it to be!)