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From: glenn AT gs DOT fay DOT nc DOT us (Glenn Spell)
Subject: Re: Debugging information for DLL's
11 Jan 1999 22:13:05 -0800 :
Message-ID: <199901111451.GAA16026.cygnus.gnu-win32@shell4.ba.best.com>
References: <369681D7 DOT 7ACB4EFF AT delorie DOT com>
Reply-To: glenn AT gs DOT fay DOT nc DOT us (Glenn Spell)
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To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

DJ Delorie writes>
> 
> You can do a partial strip on the .a to remove the symbolic debug
> information while leaving in the symbols needed for linking
> by using "strip -g foo.a".

Thank you very much. I didn't know that and 'strip --help' doesn't
indicate what '-g' is used for.

So while writing this I installed binutils.info and although it
tells me what '-g' is used for, it would not have led me to know
that I could use it on archive files.

Thanks, DJ.

-glenn

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