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 // <abial@webgiro.com> 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
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