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From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: is it possible to use strip option in call to compiler
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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 18:31:24 GMT
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Al <al_ AT tpg DOT com DOT au> wrote:

>Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>
>> 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.

What versions of gcc and binutils are you running?

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