Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for July 18
Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
> peloy@ven.ra.rockwell.com writes:
> > Does this problem affect all binaries? I mean, do I need to do
> > something about the stripped binaries in my packages? They don't
> > crash, AFAIK, but I just want to be sure and understand the problem.
>
> My impression is that there's a bug in strip that *sometimes* causes
> stripped binaries to segfault. It just so happens that the current
> build of emacs20 is one of those binaries.
>
> This conclusion comes not from thorough testing, but rather from the
> general lack of devlopers screaming and yelling about segfault
> problems :>
If `strip' is causing problems, it may be safer to use `strip
--strip-debug'. That would get you most of the size benefits without
mauling code/data.
I may be totally wrong too, and there may be a more fundamental problem
with strip and the ELF unexec(?) approach the `emacs' binary takes.
- Hari
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