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From: "Liang, James" <jliang AT sandia DOT gov>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: objdump creates huge file
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:03:43 -0700
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Hi.. I'm trying to compiled my code into a small binary image.  I used
ld --strip-all
to link together a PE executable of 22K, but when I used objcopy to convert
it to a raw binary, I got an image that was
over twice that size.(54K)  

What is causing it to be so big?  How can I make it smaller?

James Z. Liang
jliang AT sandia DOT gov




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