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]
