Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@debian.org> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 2:30 AM Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> wrote:

>> These files appear to regular ELF files.  How would I recognise them as
>> "non-strippable" ELF files?  Note even file(1) classifies them as ELF
>> shared object with debug info and not stripped.
>>
>> Related, are we sure this is not a bug/missing feature in strip(1)?
>
> I don't know anything about Guile. Rob, can you help?

I don't know all the details here, but I believe that Guile uses the ELF
format,  for its byte-compiled files, and they *are* ELF files, but
they're not "normal" executables.  They contain Guile VM byte code, data
sections, etc.

And as such, I assume they're not strippable, at least not in the
typical sense.

Does that help?
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