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From: Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: Stripping the kernel 
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On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> I have been thinking about adding a "strip -d kernel" before installing
> to the makefile...

I never thought of nlist() reading the symbols out of the kernel...

What BSD/OS does is link the kernel, then copy it to kernel.gdb, then
strip -d kernel, then install it.  That way you keep an un-stripped copy
around to debug with.  That might work out well for us too.

Evan