[Gordon Joly: Strip deletes a.out's if linked.]

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From: Gordon Joly
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:08

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It is a feature!!!!


porridge:COMMON/BUILD/gzip-0.8.1[15] gstrip -v
Usage gstrip [-S][-s srcfmt] [-d dtfmt] [-b bothfmts] infile [outfile]
porridge:COMMON/BUILD/gzip-0.8.1[16] 


Gordon.

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Subject: Strip deletes a.out's if linked.
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From: Gordon Joly <G.Joly@uk.ac.ucl.cs>



On SUN4, SunOS 4.1.1, gcc 2.3.3 compiled, strip version 1.94 (?)

porridge:gjoly/c[21] cc -o simple simple.c
porridge:gjoly/c[22] ln simple notso
porridge:gjoly/c[23] file simple notso
simple:		sparc demand paged dynamically linked executable not stripped
notso:		sparc demand paged dynamically linked executable not stripped
porridge:gjoly/c[24] ls -l simple notso
- -rwxrwxr-x  2 gjoly       24576 Jan 26 09:21 notso
- -rwxrwxr-x  2 gjoly       24576 Jan 26 09:21 simple
porridge:gjoly/c[25] strip simple notso
strip: simple: Error 0
porridge:gjoly/c[26] ls -l simple notso
- -rwxrwxr-x  2 gjoly           0 Jan 26 09:21 notso
- -rwxrwxr-x  2 gjoly           0 Jan 26 09:21 simple
porridge:gjoly/c[27] file  simple notso
simple:		empty
notso:		empty
porridge:gjoly/c[28] 



I discovered this when I tried to strip:

porridge:gjoly/Local/bin[126] ll gcc*
- -rwxr-xr-x  2 gjoly      114688 Jan  7 16:37 gcc
- -rwxr-xr-x  2 gjoly      114688 Jan  7 16:37 gcc-sparc-sun-sunos4.1.1
porridge:gjoly/Local/bin[127] 

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