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From: "Claudio Bley" <bley@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
To: "Steve Dondley" <stevedondley@attbi.com>
Cc: "Michiel Buddingh'" <ajuin+mail@stack.nl>, <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Giant executables.. what am I doing wrong?
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 04:15:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15787.63706.925487.356970@wh2-19.st.uni-magdeburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FAECKOGIHAIBBPKBOKGNGEEFDOAA.stevedondley@attbi.com>

>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Dondley <stevedondley@attbi.com> writes:

    >> with the --static option, then strip it with "--strip-all" I
    >> get a program worth 332 kB(!).

    Steve> This confuses me as well.  I can't find any documentation
    Steve> about the --strip-all option in the GCC manual.  (Maybe
    Steve> because I'm new to Linux/gcc?  I did 'info gcc' and then
    Steve> did a search for '--strip' and 'strip' but could not find
    Steve> any reference to this option.)  I also did a google search
    Steve> but that turned up nothing.  How/where can I find out what
    Steve> this does?

strip is a program provided by binutils. 'man 1 strip':

STRIP(1)

   strip - Discard symbols from object files.

SYNOPSIS
       strip [-F bfdname |--target=bfdname ]
             [-I bfdname |--input-target=bfdname ]
             [-O bfdname |--output-target=bfdname ]
             [-s|--strip-all] {...} objfile...
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-15 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-14 16:49 Michiel Buddingh'
2002-10-14 17:08 ` Joshua Nye
2002-10-14 17:21   ` Michiel Buddingh'
2002-10-14 17:35     ` Joshua Nye
2002-10-14 18:50       ` Michiel Buddingh'
2002-10-15  2:38         ` Claudio Bley
2002-10-15  5:15           ` Michiel Buddingh'
2002-10-15  5:12         ` Joshua Nye
2002-10-15  5:19           ` Joshua Nye
2002-10-15  5:20           ` Michiel Buddingh'
2002-10-15  3:53 ` Steve Dondley
2002-10-15  4:15   ` Claudio Bley [this message]
2002-10-15  5:09   ` Michiel Buddingh'
2002-10-14 19:00 Dockeen
2002-10-15  5:31 Ruppert

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