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On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:10:13AM -0800, Jim Blandy wrote:
> Just a thought: stripping doesn't remove the dynamic symbol table.
> I think GDB reads both the dynamic and static ELF symbol tables.
> If we could get the symbols libpthread_db needs into libpthread's
> dynamic symbol table, would that prevent stripping from breaking
> thread debugging?

The maintainers refused.  I tried this years ago.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery