From owner-freebsd-small Mon Jul 3 15:55:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mimer.webgiro.com [212.209.29.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D729037B72D for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 15:55:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id 01B732DC0B; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 01:00:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 119A67817; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 00:50:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F88410E17; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 00:50:41 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 00:50:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: clemensF Cc: Albert Yang , small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'more' has gone from the 5.x/4.x sources. more is less In-Reply-To: <20000704004106.J8091@spotteswoode.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, clemensF wrote: > > Albert Yang: > > > Question, I know after I gcc something, I can run a program in linux > > called "strip" and it strips out all the debug stuff and makes the .o > > code smaller. I assume this isn't a linux thing, but works on BSD as > > well? Has anybody tried that? From my understanding, it strips all > > debug information. Anyone? > > it strips off the symbol table, which is needed for orientation in de- > bugging. almost every compiler-suit supplies a utility for this. The crunch image is stripped of everything that possibly can be stripped - not only symbols table, but also comment sections (which are usually left in all stripped binaries). Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message