Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 08:24:59 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Rudolf Polzer <rpolzer AT web DOT de>
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Subject: Re: what does the -s switch do?
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On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Rudolf Polzer wrote:

> > This strips all symbols out of the program.  So if you want to use debuggin
> > you can't use -s i.e
> > 
> > "gcc -g3 1.c -o 1.exe -s" is a bad idea :-)
> 
> Is there still some debugging code in it when you do this? Or are all
> debugging aids contained in the symbol table?

I don't understand what do you mean by ``debugging code''.