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- From: psmith@lemming.wellfleet.com (Paul D. Smith)
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- Subject: Re: strip
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 16:26:12 -0500
- Organization: Bay Networks, Inc. / Billerica, MA
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- In-reply-to: Richard Pieri's message of 26 Mar 1996 09:44:06 -0500
- To: Richard Pieri <ratinox@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu>
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- %% Regarding Re: strip;
- %% Richard Pieri <ratinox@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu> writes:
-
- PDS> Sorry, but that's wrong. The only system Emacs 19 can't be
- PDS> stripped on is AIX (according to the MACHINES file, and my
- PDS> tests as of Emacs 19.28--haven't tried stripping AIX emacs
- PDS> since then).
-
- rp> I have not done exhaustive tests, but XEmacs 19.13 will not run
- rp> stripped unless you strip temacs before dumping.
-
- I don't know anything about XEmacs, but this is certainly not the case
- for the Emacs distributed by the FSF. Since you just said "emacs", I
- assumed you were referring to the original (or at least both).
-
- If indeed this is the case with XEmacs, then that's a serious bug that
- should be solved; since Emacs works I see no good reason XEmacs won't.
-
- I've built and stripped all versions of Emacs 19, including pretests,
- and they've all worked fine afterwards. And I used to strip Emacs 18
- with no problems as well :). YAR to use The Real Thing, I guess.
-
- rp> Stripping the 19.30 binary on SunOS 5.5 does absolutely nothing
- rp> at all as the dumped lisp is apparantly tacked onto the end of
- rp> the file after the symbol table data; it cannot be stripped.
-
- Nevertheless, stripping does _not_ degrade performance or cause Emacs to
- stop running, as claimed.
- --
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- Paul D. Smith <psmith@baynetworks.com> Network Management Development
- Senior Software Engineer Bay Networks, Inc.
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