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Re: strip, Linux's backtrace_symbols API, and GCC optimizations levels

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
To: binutils at sourceware dot org
Cc: bgoodr3 <bgoodr at gmail dot com>
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 19:27:47 -0400
Subject: Re: strip, Linux's backtrace_symbols API, and GCC optimizations levels
References: <23348886.post@talk.nabble.com>

On Saturday 02 May 2009 14:12:43 bgoodr3 wrote:
> I was intrigued to find that the Linux backtrace_symbols C function returns
> strings that show function names, even when the executable and its shared
> libraries are stripped with "strip --strip-all".

exported symbols in libraries can never be stripped without destroying the 
library, so this isnt really surprising at all
-mike

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