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Re: Patch for strip

To: Alan Modra <alan at linuxcare dot com dot au>
Subject: Re: Patch for strip
From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 19:56:29 -0700
Cc: llewelly at dbritsch dot dsl dot xmission dot com,binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <20000512172028.A31816@lucon.org> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005131231320.21294-100000@front.linuxcare.com.au>

On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 12:37:18PM +1000, Alan Modra wrote:
> I'm inclined to just say that running strip on a relocatable file is a
> silly thing to do.
> 

But the manual doesn't say it. And it even says

@item --strip-unneeded
Strip all symbols that are not needed for relocation processing.

To me, it implies that it is ok for relocatable files.

H.J.

References:
- Patch for strip
  - From: H . J . Lu
- Re: Patch for strip
  - From: Alan Modra

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