On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 01:11:30AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> We strip modules as much as is possible. I have never heard of stripping
> the kernel itself.
Stripping all symbols is highly likely to break the kernel. However, GCC
generates a .ident field in object files, which seems to be unnecessary:
$ strings -a /usr/src/linux-2.4.10-ac11/vmlinux | fgrep 'GCC: (GNU) 2.95.2'
310 1860 14260
Regards,
Mark.