From: john@assen.demon.co.uk (John McCabe)
Subject: Re: GNAT Codesize
Date: 1996/07/05
Date: 1996-07-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <836587562.4923.0@assen.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.836197454@schonberg
dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:
>John McCabe says
>"Because you're modifying the file that contains the executable code
>and you're risking the possibility of a bug in the 'strip' command
>that may remove something it shouldn't. This may be something that
>happens to be not fully tested on a large system."
>Now that's really FUD at work. Strip is a trivial command, you might as
>well worry about ls corrupting the file, or worrying that deleting the
>separate symbol table file might clobber the executable file (stranger
>things have happened). Of course strip has been tested on large systems!
>If you start using this argument, you can prove that ANY possible aproach
>might be dangerous!
You've removed the quoted line:
"It's probably highly unlikely I know, but stranger things have
happened."
from your reply.
Best Regards
John McCabe <john@assen.demon.co.uk>
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-06-20 0:00 GNAT Codesize Haug Buerger
1996-06-20 0:00 ` James E. Hopper
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-24 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-24 0:00 ` John Howard
1996-06-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-25 0:00 ` David J. Fiander
1996-06-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-28 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-06-29 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-05 0:00 ` John McCabe [this message]
1996-07-05 0:00 ` JP Thornley
1996-06-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-02 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-01 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-03 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-02 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-06 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-06 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Gavin Smyth
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Question about the need for requeue as described in Rationale James A. Squire
1996-07-05 0:00 ` Bo I. Sanden
1996-07-05 0:00 ` progers
1996-07-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-08 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-09 0:00 ` Bo I. Sanden
1996-07-08 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-07-08 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-07-09 0:00 ` progers
1996-07-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-10 0:00 ` progers
1996-07-09 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-21 0:00 ` GNAT Codesize Ralph Paul
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Doug Smith
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Question about the need for requeue as described in Rationale James A. Squire
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