Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 16:39:00 +0300
From: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
To: gmoscho AT alexander DOT cc DOT ece DOT ntua DOT gr
Subject: Re: Code generation
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

>  an 93kb .exe file. I looked at the executable and found that the linker
>  included all the names (as strings) of the functions included from the libs.
>  is there any switch to prevent this ? coz 93 kb for a hello.c is really
 
Use the -s switch.  It tells ld to strip (thus the `s') all the symbols from
the binary.