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Re: Question about clisp version naming


Ken Brown writes:
> The clisp executables are not stripped because apparently there's a
> disassemble command within clisp that doesn't work if the executables
> are stripped.  I don't actually know anything about this, but there
> was a comment about that in the .cygport file that I inherited from
> Reini. This may or may not explain why maxima.exe didn't like being
> stripped.

Looking at the executable it seems that it is a very small (~66 kiB)
stub that then proceeds to load the rest of the file after having
started the runtime.  The memory image seems simply bolted on (as an
overlay?), and gets removed when the executable is stripped.


Regards
Achim.
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