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Andy, All, On Thursday 05 August 2010 08:43:04 Andy Gibbs wrote: > On Wednesday, August 04, 2010 10:46 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > > Just disable sstrip, it's not really needed most of the time (and is > > broken > > on a few archs, eg. PPC). I'm thinking about just removing it in the next > > release. > Either way, I think in your case, the standard strip should be perfectly > adequate. My understanding is that sstrip was created with embedded systems > in mind where storage space is at a premium so it strips out further > "unnecessary" sections that the standard strip does not. However, if you > read through the source code for sstrip, it details a number of caveats - > i.e. it is a very specific tool to a specific task, and is not 100% reliable > outside that box. Therefore where storage space is not a premium, then I > think it much better (and safer!) to use the standard strip instead. > > (This is just my opinion!) And I agree! :-) I'll be queing a patch to make sstrip non-default. It can happen that it is still needed in some cases, but it seems the majority is not using it, and it is failing quite often. Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------' -- For unsubscribe information see http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faq
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