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To: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Stripping the kernel 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 21 Nov 1997 21:11:22 +0100."
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Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 11:54:30 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <19971121211122.16595@mi.uni-koeln.de>, Stefan Esser writes:
>On 1997-11-21 11:43 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>> I have been thinking about adding a "strip -d kernel" before installing
>> to the makefile...
>
>I just tried it: The size of the kernel was reduced by 0 bytes,
>and I guess that is not enough to justify the effort ;-)

If your kernel was compiled with "-g" which this is intended to help,
it would have.  It is harmless for the normal case.  man 1 strip.

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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."