Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 10:19:13 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Re: gcc-crash - and a possible solution
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On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 pavenis AT lanet DOT lv wrote:

> I'm afraid it would be rather difficult to get identical binaries.  
> Therefore I think we should in future either leave binaries not 
> stripped or put not stripped binaries somewhere.

I agree.  Having unstripped binaries somewhere they can be downloaded
if needed seems to be a better idea than including unstripped programs
in the usual *b.zip distributions, since the debug info bloats the
programs too much, and such crashes are usually rare to justify that
bloat.