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Subject:	Re: is it possible to use strip option in call to compiler
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Josh Haglund wrote:
>
> > I use -s when compiling a chess program and then I enter strip chess.exe
> > after to reduce the size even more.
>
> Hmm?  If you use the -s compiler switch, the produced executable is
> already stripped, so running strip.exe on it should not change its
> size by even a single byte.  If this doesn't work for you, it's either
> some usage error or a bug in one of the tools (the linker or
> strip.exe).
Well I've found that running strip.exe after -s does reduce the
executable size by a smaller fraction.

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