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

[Mike Frysinger]

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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