Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 17:12:19 -0800 (PST)
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To: Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>,
        ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: Need information !!!
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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At 10:11  10/27/1997 -0500, Peter Palotas wrote:
>>Yeah, there are symbol tables and debug info in there. Use strip, or
>>compile with -s, to get a smaller EXE when you have a final product and
>>are done debugging.
>
>Stripping debug information and whatever, using 'strip' often makes my
>programs give me a SIGSEGV. Is this understandable, or is it a bug that
>should be looked into? 
I think this has already been solved, and was traced to a bug in DJP. But
another caveat with `strip': At least with the `strip' from Binutils 2.7,
you can't strip a file that has been compiled with stabs debugging. It
results in a bogus binary and instant GPF's. I know that DJP 1.05 can handle
stabs-debugging files made with the 2.7 Binutils.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net