From:	Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Problem with strip
Date:	Tue, 14 Apr 1998 13:30:24 +0200
Organization:	Lehrstuhl fuer Stroemungsmechanik
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Andreas 'LionKing' Tscharner wrote:
> 
> > I'm working on a little game. Now I've found this bug (?). I've compiled
> > all my files of the project with the -g - option (debugging information).
> > The program worked correctly. Then I STRIPped my program, and an error
> > occured (SIGSEGV handled by Allegro). Anyone knows what's wrong?
> 
> Most probably, a bug in your program.  `strip' doesn't do anything to the
> executable code, so the probability that it acauses a bug is extremely
> low.

I found something weird when stripping off files compiled
with -gstabs. This seems to *do* some harm to executables.
But haven't yet thoroughly checked this. 
-- 
Ciao
Tom

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