From: Andrew Crabtree <andrewc AT typhoon DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
Message-Id: <199707031607.AA187436078@typhoon.rose.hp.com>
Subject: Re: Funny Strip.exe behaviour
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 9:07:58 PDT
Precedence: bulk

> > > How you stripped it?
> > c:\djgpp\lib\> strip libgcc.a
> 
> *Bad* idea. You shouldn't ever do this to a library. If you really
> think you need to strip the *debugging* symbols out of a library, do
> it with 'strip --strip-debug --strip-locals' or something
> similar. Otherwise, strip will also throw out the global symbols.

That must be my problem.  I have only ever used strip on 
final .exes, where I guess all that is left is the debugging symbols.
It makes sense that on .o files you would lose other info as well.

Thanks

Andrew