From: David Jenkins <me AT jenkinsdavid DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Size of .exe Why so BIG???
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 07:47:56 +0000
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In article <330e7ef2 DOT 25904669 AT ursa DOT smsu DOT edu>, Tony O'Bryan
<aho450s AT nic DOT smsu DOT edu> writes
>On Fri, 21 Feb 1997 22:50:08 GMT, fwec AT juno DOT com (Mark T Logan) wrote:
>
>>You can also use 'strip' one of the GNU binutils.  I've never used it,
>>but I think it does 
>>something like removing unnecessary data from the .exe.  I could be wrong
>>about this.
>
>I used strip on an 80K "Hello World" program, which trimmed it down to 30K.
>That's pretty good when considering everything gcc has to link into the
>executable.

I've used the -s option it works great.

But strip I don't understand.
From what I can gather it works at the intermediate compiler stage on
the pre assmebled source???
In short "How does it work????"

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David Jenkins