On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Cort wrote: > > On 25-Aug-98 Gevaerts Frank wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Cort wrote: > > > >> Here's a pretty newbie question. > >> > >> What are symbols (in the context of object files)? They don't seem to serve > >> any > >> purposes in executables, but are they needed in shared libraries? What about > >> static libraries? > >> > > They are definitely needed in the libraries, since they are used to find > > the right function. (Formatting a disk when you just want to do a printf > > wouldn't do, would it? ;-) > > Uhm.. Ok. But I went ahead and stripped all my gtk shared libs anyway, just to > test things out, and all my gtk programs are still running fine. I even > recompiled (actually, only the linking part) gEdit to see if it will affect > that and it didn't. What gives? > > Cort > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Well, probably stripping only removes the "human readable" part of the symbols. I don't really know however. Did it save much space ? Frank
