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

[Adam Jackson]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 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 ;)

Remind me why we don't make the useful behaviour for nm the default.

- ajax