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Date:      Tue, 4 Jul 2000 00:50:41 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
To:        clemensF <ino-waiting@gmx.net>
Cc:        Albert Yang <albert@achtung.com>, small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 'more' has gone from the 5.x/4.x sources. more is less
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0007040048590.67531-100000@mx.webgiro.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000704004106.J8091@spotteswoode.de>

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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

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