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Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:25:58 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <199801102325.PAA29624@adit.ap.net>
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To: matthew DOT krause AT juno DOT com (Matthew R Krause), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: Strip.exe

At 12:47  1/10/1998 -0500, Matthew R Krause wrote:
>What exactly does strip.exe do -- I've noticed it shrinks the size of my
>executables by ~40-50%, but how?
It removes the debugging information which GCC includes in the executable by
default.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net



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