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All binaries on a classic Linux distro are stripped (you can use 'file' to quickly check some), so your issues might be worth reporting

• dataflow 3y ago
  Stripped via -s or via strip?
  • kelnos 3y ago
    I never understood why strip's "--strip-unneeded" flag wasn't the default. Leaving that out can often enough give you a binary that just doesn't work.
    • dataflow 3y ago
      Yup that's exactly what I mean. Nobody ever mentions that flag when recommending stripping, and it's frustrating when you realize it's broken. It's been a few years, but even when I finally discovered and tried that flag, it still didn't quite do the right thing. Either it failed to strip stuff that -s stripped, or it still produced a binary that didn't work... I forget what exactly the issue was. I just remember failing to find an alternative to cc -s that was guaranteed to work.