From: Scarius <scarius AT geocities DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Strip.exe
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 22:02:10 -0500
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Jochen Erwied wrote:

> It removes the linked-in symbols of your program. Same effect as if you link
> your program with 'gcc -s -o <program> ...'

I'm just dumb, but what does that mean? As I understand compiling (been
working on some simple compilers of my own), there wouldn't be any
symbols left in the finished, compiled program. Maybe I just don't
understand. Thx