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Re: nm dying on stripped .so's
> On Jan 12, 2017, at 4:25 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 02:23:43PM -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>> On Jan 12, 2017, at 3:11 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>>> Please try readelf -Ds.
>>
>> I tried that: it works, thanks. Attaching the output.
>>
>> I’m confused why “readelf” considers the file sound, but “nm” doesn’t. Can “nm” be made a little more forgiving?
>
> No. You have an object that has been more than just stripped. Its
> section headers have been completely removed, probably to hinder you
> inspecting the file. Complain to whoever gave you the file.
>
No one is trying to hinder anything, as far as I know.
It’s an embedded environment, as I mentioned, and we have to fit an entire Linux distro onto a 4GB flash for a $39 SOC BOM (aka an off-the-shelf wireless router)… so there’s a lot of pressure to get every file to be as small as possible (as sometimes smaller than really useful, especially when you have to debug a situation).
-Philip