On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> What is the difference between:
>
> gcc -s ...stripping a binary, yes?
yes
> gcc -g ...adding debugging symbols, yes?
debugging symbols means source code line number information
> strip ...removing debugging symbols, yes?
... and symbols for addresses in the obj that may not be associated with
source code line numbers
>
> I had always thought "gcc -s" and "strip" were synonymous; just having
> compiled tftp it didn't appear to be - at least I don't think so. The
> compile had the -s option but file labeled the results as
> "non-stripped."
I am not sure... strip manpage says they are "similar"
I tried a sample program, and found no difference in the result, but I am
not intimately familiar with strip, so it might be related to a feature of
the source code that I did not use.
> What gives? Also, what's the difference between no options and -g?
information about line number positions in the source code
> After all, what gets stripped if -g isn't used?
relation between addresses and symbols. That is, if you are looking at a
memory dump of the executable, what is the name of these locations that
the code loads data from or jumps to?
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