Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 08:38:18 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Allegro question regarding .exe size
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On 25 May 1997, George Foot wrote:

> I don't recall whether the Allegro library builds itself with the -s
> option; if not, this would reduce the size of its code.

The -s option has nothing to do with the way libraries are built, it's
for the linker.  So no matter how the Allegro library was built, if
you use -s while linking, the debugging symbols will be stripped,
including those from library functions.