I changed the Subject: line to refer to the question you actually asked. At 03:44 PM 8/15/02 +0200, Axel Siebenwirth wrote: >Me again. > >Whats the use of stripping object files of their symbols. Symbols reflect >the functions in an object file, right?
Stripping makes the files smaller, which matters in some cases. The symbols are valuable in debugging problems but are not needed simply to execute the object code. -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
