[Linux-users] Strip ...

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2007, Ben Duncan wrote:
>I came across a Slackware Install script where the author was
>using "strip --strip-unneeded" against all of the objects.
>
>I know that 'strip' is suppose to help reduce the size of OBJECTS, but
>on modern systems with BIG hard drives, is that still necessary?

Personally I prefer not to strip files as it may make debugging
more difficult as backtracing on core files often doesn't return
anything useful.

On the other hand, I would guess that few people would actually
use this capability (and programs like strace can often be more
useful to track down things like missing files).

...
Bill
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