From: "Tom Demmer" <DEMMER AT brain1 DOT lstm DOT ruhr-uni-bochum DOT de>
Organization:  Lehrstuhl Stroemungsmechanik, RUB
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date:          Thu, 16 Apr 1998 08:29:58 GMT-1
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Subject:       Re: strip.exe and -gstabs broken
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> 
> Isn't this problem due to the fact that Binutils 2.7 were not
> configured to support stabs?  Which strip did you use?  Was it from
> Binutils 2.8.1 or 2.7?

2.7

> 
> > Eli proposed to use -gxcoff instead, but that only gets you a warning
> > "debugging format not supported by this version of gcc".
> 
> I think I said -gcoff, not -gxcoff.  (At least, that's what I *meant*
> to say.)  -gcoff should work.

Also could be what you *have* written. Anyway, I always thought that 
only stabs would provide information for debugging classes, but I 
might be wrong. 

> 
> > I am not sure if 2.8 supports stabs, but I guess that if so, strip.exe
> > will ruin those images, too. The only way around this, so far, is
> > to rebuild all without debugging info...
> 
> Did you try stripping the raw COFF image?  For example:
> 
>     exe2coff foo.exe
>     strip foo
>     stubify foo
>     del foo
> 
> Does this work with stabs debugging?  If the problem is with the stub,
> then the above should provide a work-around.
> 
Yes, that works, too. The other way is, as SET pointed out, to simply 
relink without debugging info. But your idea seems to be faster.

Ciao
Tom

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