On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:20:02PM -0800, sureshsoft wrote: > "Once you use this command, symbolic debugging of the file is difficult; > therefore, you should normally use the strip command only on production > modules that you have debugged and tested." By this what i understood is > strip doesn't allow the stripped symbols cannot be stored in another file.
This is talking about removing a symbol table from an object file. > same man page also says below stuff. > "You can restore a stripped symbol table to an archive or library file by > using the ar -s command." This is an entirely different symbol table. An archive containing object files has a table that tells the linker which object file contains a definition for each global symbol. -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
