Comment 1:

Changed since recent changes, but still fails (same on i386, but this is an issue on
amd64 too):
> strip -d 6.out
BFD: 6.out: warning: Empty loadable segment detected, is this intentional ?
BFD: stE2SbKS: warning: allocated section `.interp' not in segment
> ./6.out
ELF interpreter ^?ELF^B^A^A      not found
Abort
Does this happen on Linux?

Comment 2:

This is a known issue.  If you strip the binary you throw
away the runtime symbol information that gets used for
stack traces and some aspects of reflection.  Don't do that.  ;-)
We plan to move that data into a rodata segment and then
strip will not break the binary but will also not remove
very much.

Status changed to LongTerm.

Comment 3 by wjosephson:

Well, yes.  I bumped into an install -s under FreeBSD.

Comment 4:

Where do the runtime symbols get stored? Everywhere that I'm seeing right now implies
that they're either in .hash or .gosymtab which would suggest that if those sections
are read-only, they shouldn't get tossed by strip. But they are:
> objdump -hrt ../gofmt/gofmt 
../gofmt/gofmt:     file format elf64-x86-64
Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA               LMA               File off  Algn
  0 .interp       00000015  00000000004007eb  00000000004007eb  000007eb  2**0
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  1 .got          00000000  0000000000446678  0000000000446678  00046678  2**3
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
  2 .got.plt      00000000  0000000000446d48  0000000000446d48  00046d48  2**3
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
  3 .dynsym       00000018  0000000000464a28  0000000000464a28  00064a28  2**3
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  4 .dynstr       00000004  0000000000446470  0000000000446470  00046470  2**0
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  5 .hash         00000010  0000000000492ae0  0000000000492ae0  00092ae0  2**3
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  6 .rela         00000000  00000000004472d8  00000000004472d8  000472d8  2**3
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  7 .dynamic      00000090  0000000000482e48  0000000000482e48  00082e48  2**3
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
  8 .text         00044f26  0000000000400800  0000000000400800  00000800  2**3
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  9 .data         00060748  0000000000446000  0000000000446000  00046000  2**3
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
 10 .bss          002145d0  00000000004a6748  00000000004a6748  000a6748  2**3
                  ALLOC
 11 .gosymtab     0007664f  0000000000000000  0000000000000000  000a7008  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY
 12 .gopclntab    000057e6  0000000000000000  0000000000000000  0011d657  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY
SYMBOL TABLE:
no symbols

Comment 5:

This issue was closed by revision 000ab98.

Status changed to Fixed.