[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > $ ls -l a.out > -rwxr-xr-x 1 kwall users 24234 Dec 20 15:03 a.out*
> > The standard "Hello, World!" program compiled without debugging > symbols (gcc hello.c): > > $ ls -l a.out > -rwxr-xr-x 1 kwall users 13250 Dec 20 15:03 a.out* > > After stripping the binary: > > $ strip a.out > $ ls -l a.out > -rwxr-xr-x 1 kwall users 2984 Dec 20 15:15 a.out* > > Quite the difference in size. > Why? As it was explained to me, and as I read in the man page, *strip* "discards all symbols". What does it to the binary without debugging symbols compiled in to get such a large filesize difference? What *symbols* are compiled in other than debugging symbols? <not that it matters, just curious...> Regards, Tim _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
