Binary size of the libstdc++.so library

Rich Churcher churchmouse@optusnet.com.au
Sat Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 2000


On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Phil Edwards wrote:
> 
> Just FYI, the native strip(1) under IRIX 6.5 (and earlier?) has the lovable
> habit of stripping out exception information.  The resulting library can
> be linked against and the executable run, but while the throw's are still
> there, often the catch's won't be.  Wonderful effect, that.
> 
> (To be fair, you can use command-line options to avoid that problem.  /IF/
> you know about them.)

Is this true of GNU strip also?  Bit of a worry...

Cheers,

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Rich
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