From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: strip.exe or -s
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 22:14:36 GMT
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On Tue, 22 Apr 1997 08:32:15 GMT, Robert Humphris
<r DOT humphris AT indigo-avs DOT com> wrote:

>Now I have used strip for a while now and before we use it here at work
>we would like to know what it
>does and how it does it!  We need to know this type of thing before we
>can start releasing code that
>has been stripped.
>
>So does anyone have any information that is pertinent or have some
>pointers as to where to look for
>this information?

Try `info binutils strip'. As I understand it, it strips debugging
symbols (e.g. identifiers, filenames, source filenames, line numbers)
but don't take my word for it. I think it is equivalent to
compiling/linking with `-s'.

-- 
George Foot