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From: vasta@apollo.HP.COM (John Vasta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Symbol tables
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Date: 23 Feb 90 21:36:00 GMT
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In article <9002201912.AA07570@umix.cc.umich.edu> derstad@CIM-VAX.HONEYWELL.COM ("DAVE ERSTAD") writes:
>
>I have an object code which is about 4.8 MB long, about 4.2MB of which is
>the symbol table.  Most of the code was compiled under BSD, but some
>is compiled under Aegis.  The final object is produced with the bind
>command.
>
>Supposedly, the BSD command "strip" should be able to remove the symbol
>table entries from this object.  When I try, however, I get
>a "strip: filename: relocation entries; cannot strip"

Bind leaves relocation info in the object; ld normally removes it.
You could use the sys5.3 version of "strip"; it has a -r option to
leave relocation info there but remove the debugging info. Look at
the sys5.3 version of the strip man page.

John Vasta                Hewlett-Packard Apollo Systems Division
vasta@apollo.hp.com       M.S. CHA-01-LT
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