[fpc-pascal] Free Pascal created libraries used by other languages

Jonas Maebe jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be
Wed Dec 9 15:25:23 CET 2009


On 09 Dec 2009, at 15:22, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> Out of curiosity I tried, but I can't find any 'unstripped' .so  
> files on my
> Linux system. So Midnight Commander doesn't show me anything, other  
> than
> what architecture the .so file is.

A dynamic library cannot be completely stripped, because dynamic  
linking happens using symbol names. If it were completely stripped, it  
could not be used by any program (except if all the library did was  
executing initialisation and/or finalisation code, which is highly  
unlikely).


Jonas



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