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Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 23:24:39 +0100
From: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT gmx DOT net>
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To: Matthew R Krause <matthew DOT krause AT juno DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Strip.exe
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Matthew R Krause wrote :
> 
> What exactly does strip.exe do -- I've noticed it shrinks the size of my
> executables by ~40-50%, but how?

It removes any debugging information from your executable.
This information is needed when you want to debug your program.
And this information is needed _only_ for debugging, that means
you now loose anything when you strip your executable (except of
course the aibility to debug your program).

BTW: You can create the stripped executable already at link time,
when you add the -s switch for gcc, like:

gcc -s -o foo.exe foo.o

Robert
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