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cerri
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 Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 11:00 pm Post subject: Stripping symbols from binaries... but why? |
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Why Gentoo strips symbols from binaries?
Isn't sufficient to not give "-g" to gcc flags?
I mean: I'm not having symbols because I'm not using -g as a CFLAG, why even stripping them? 
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| Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 11:11 pm Post subject: Re: Stripping symbols from binaries... but why? |
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| cerri wrote: | Why Gentoo strips symbols from binaries?
Isn't sufficient to not give "-g" to gcc flags?
I mean: I'm not having symbols because I'm not using -g as a CFLAG, why even stripping them? |
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$ cat >foo.c
int main () {}
^D
$ gcc -O2 -o foo foo.c
$ ls -l foo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 me users 4918 Jul 8 02:08 foo*
$ strip foo
$ ls -l foo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 me users 2428 Jul 8 02:08 foo*
$
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cerri
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| Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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Cool, so NOT using "-g" isn't the same as stripping it.
Understood, thanx 
| Code: | cerri@cerrito cerri $ cat >foo.c
int main () {}
cerri@cerrito cerri $ gcc -o2 -o foo foo.c
cerri@cerrito cerri $ gcc -o2 -g -o foo2 foo.c
cerri@cerrito cerri $ ls -la foo*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 cerri users 8222 2003-07-08 01:25 foo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 cerri users 8514 2003-07-08 01:26 foo2
-rw-r--r-- 1 cerri users 15 2003-07-08 01:25 foo.c
cerri@cerrito cerri $ strip foo
cerri@cerrito cerri $ strip foo2
cerri@cerrito cerri $ ls -la foo*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 cerri users 2904 2003-07-08 01:26 foo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 cerri users 2904 2003-07-08 01:26 foo2
-rw-r--r-- 1 cerri users 15 2003-07-08 01:25 foo.c
cerri@cerrito cerri $ |
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