binutils 2.17 strip creates corrupted binaries on solaris-sun-sol aris2.8

[Kelvin Lee]

Configured with the command line:

        env CC=gcc CXX=g++ ./configure --enable-shared --disable-nls

I am using the latest gcc 3.4.6 downloaded from ftp.sunfreeware.com.

Simply compile the following program with gcc:

int main(void) { return 0; }

and then run strip from binutils-2.17 on the output binary.
strip produces a corrupted (and unusually bigger, size increased from 6k+ to 200k+) binary which prints the message "Killed" upon run.

Tested the same thing with binutils-2.16.1 works just fine.

Regards,
Kelvin Lee
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