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Re: nm dying on stripped .so's


On Jan 12 2017, Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx@redfish-solutions.com> wrote:

> It’s an embedded environment, as I mentioned, and we have to fit an entire Linux distro onto a 4GB flash for a $39 SOC BOM (aka an off-the-shelf wireless router)… so there’s a lot of pressure to get every file to be as small as possible (as sometimes smaller than really useful, especially when you have to debug a situation).

While debugging you should use the original, unstripped objects (which
can be put in a sysroot outside of the device).

Andreas.

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