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From: "Josh Haglund" <lhaglund AT wiktel DOT com>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: is it possible to use strip option in call to compiler
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 00:18:39 -0500
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Josh Haglund
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Damian Yerrick" <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: is it possible to use strip option in call to compiler


> 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?
> 
> -- 
> Damian Yerrick
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