Re: Unable to use objcopy on AIX

[Alan Modra]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:20:02PM -0800, sureshsoft wrote:
> "Once you use this command, symbolic debugging of the file is difficult;
> therefore, you should normally use the strip command only on production
> modules that you have debugged and tested." By this what i understood is
> strip doesn't allow the stripped symbols cannot be stored in another file.

This is talking about removing a symbol table from an object file.

> same man page also says below stuff.
> "You can restore a stripped symbol table to an archive or library file by
> using the ar -s command." 

This is an entirely different symbol table.  An archive containing
object files has a table that tells the linker which object file
contains a definition for each global symbol.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM