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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib strhash.c
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>What good things come from the info from static functions in
>non-debuggable libraries?  I think we should be stripping that info. from
>the shared .o's as well.

All libraries are debuggable :-).

>Generally speaking most people don't want to debug binaries w/out the
>debugging information in (the poor unwashed never needed to use
>non-symbolic debuggers :), so I propose that we strip out the static
>symbols from the standard shared libraries.

We don't supply libraries compiled with -g so the static symbols are
more important than they should be.

`ld -r -x' on libc/obj/*.so saves a whole 21K out of 535K.  Many static
symbols with long names are not removed.  In fact, they become longer:
for the object yplib.so, yplib.so.L179 becomes yplib.so.yplib.so.L179.
I think there is a linker bug or two here.  Shared objects are
"stripped" using `ld -r -X'.  The label for yplib.so was originally
L179 and "stripping" turned it into yplib.so.L179 instead of removing
it like the -X flag says to.

Bruce