Bug#40467: glibc and --strip-unneeded

[Erik Andersen <andersen@xmission.com>]

I was wondering if the issues regarding running --strip-unneeded
have been resolved?  It makes a difference of 128k.  As I am working
on embedded systems, reclaiming that 128k would be very helpful.

    [andersen@char linux]$ cp /lib/libc-2.1.2.so /tmp
    [andersen@char linux]$ ls -sh /tmp/libc-2.1.2.so 
    999k /tmp/libc-2.1.2.so*
    [andersen@char linux]$ strip --strip-unneeded /tmp/libc-2.1.2.so 
    [andersen@char linux]$ ls -sh /tmp/libc-2.1.2.so 
    871k /tmp/libc-2.1.2.so*

Also, as I was looking over the report in the debian bug tracking
system, I do not understand what you were trying to show by running
the library after saying "in particular this:". Perhaps I am dense, but:

    [andersen@char linux]$ cp /lib/libc-2.1.2.so /tmp
    [andersen@char linux]$ /tmp/libc-2.1.2.so > /tmp/test1
    [andersen@char linux]$ cp /lib/libc-2.1.2.so /tmp
    [andersen@char linux]$ strip --strip-unneeded /tmp/libc-2.1.2.so 
    [andersen@char linux]$ /tmp/libc-2.1.2.so > /tmp/test2
    [andersen@char linux]$ diff -u /tmp/test1 /tmp/test2
    [andersen@char linux]$ 

i.e. it does the same thing whether stripped or unstripped.

Could you explain to me what is wrong with --strip-unneeded for
GNU libc?

 -Erik

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