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System:  SPARC 1, SunOS 4.1.1

A month or two ago, I made the claim that stripping the gcc-2.2.2 and/or
2.3.1 executables (cpp, cc1, etc) caused ld to fail (both Sun ld and GNU
ld).

I commented that not stripping these files caused the problem to go
away, so who cares; then rms Himself asked me to investigate further.

I was unable to duplicate the error; I have no idea why.  I went so far
as to unmount the partition containing a later (working) version of gcc,
without being able to cause any ld problems.

In any event, gcc-2.3.2 & 2.3.3 do not exhibit this behavior.  Stripping
cpp and cc1 cause no ld problems.  I did notice, though, that while cc1
gets only about 10% smaller (from 1253376 to 1155072), cpp loses over
90% of its size (from 1253376 to 90112).

-- 
	Vince Tessier (vtessier@vela.acs.oakland.edu)
Mort Sahl: General, aren't you supporting Castro by smoking that Havana cigar?
Alexander Haig:	I prefer to think of it as burning his crops to the ground.
(from an interview of Mort Sahl on National Public Radio, 23nov91)