Date:	Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:28:03 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Problem with strip
In-Reply-To:	<353348D0.8570EA12@LSTM.Ruhr-UNI-Bochum.De>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980414162607.5335A-100000@is>
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On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Thomas Demmer wrote:

> > 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.

My experience is limited to Binutils 2.7 and GCC 2.7.x which don't 
support stabs.  So I might be wrong if the original poster used -gstabs.  
It is advisable to try "gcc -gcoff" and see if that changes anything.

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