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* De: David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> [ Data: 2003-04-01 ]
	[ Subjecte: Re: FreeBSD/alpha kern.flp flood ]
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 06:03:48PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > Anyway, I've committed the fix to release/Makefile that strips
> > the .comment section out from the BOOTMFS kernel.  If you have
> > time, you can exploit the effect of this by changing sweaping
> > over src/sys/ and changing rcsid = "$FreeBSD$" lines to be
> > __FBSDID() -- that would put these IDs in the .comment section,
> > thus reducing the size of the stripped kernel by a few more
> > kilobytes.
> 
> Why can't the bits be built with -Dlint to remove rcsid's.

Because that would change other things, wouldn't it.  Like maybe
structure sizes or macros which need to actually work?
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