Confused about /usr/bin/nm, linker, and stripped libs

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 10:44 -0400, John Ellson wrote:
> These days rpm installs most libs stripped of their symbols, which is 
> fine as it makes them smaller and presumably load faster.
> 
> But how does the linker resolve symbols against stripped libs?   And if 
> the linker can do it, why can't /usr/bin/nm ?


just pass -D to nm... or use eu-readelf ;)