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Chandler
Chandler

Reputation: 386

What's the meaning of "stripped, with debug_info" when I use "file" command for a shared library?

When I use "file" command on a shared library:

file shared_library.so

It shows 

shared_library.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /system/bin/linker, stripped, with debug_info

"stripped" means It is stripped. But I don't understand why stripped library still have "with debug_info".

Upvotes: 6

Views: 2422

Answers (1)

Mike Kinghan
Mike Kinghan

Reputation: 61610

But I don't understand why stripped library still have "with debug_info".

This would be the effect of strip --only-keep-debug file. From man strip:

--only-keep-debug

Strip a file, removing contents of any sections that would not be stripped by --strip-debug and leaving the debugging sections intact. In ELF files, this preserves all note sections in the output.

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Upvotes: 5

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