From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: GNAT Codesize
Date: 1996/07/01
Date: 1996-07-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.836197454@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 836045240.382.1@assen.demon.co.uk
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!
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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 ` Ralph Paul
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 ` David J. Fiander
1996-06-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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 [this message]
1996-07-05 0:00 ` John McCabe
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 ` 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
1996-07-09 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 Doug Smith
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Question about the need for requeue as described in Rationale James A. Squire
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