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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Shrinking the size of your executables (mcs(1) command)
Message-ID: <124@raysnec.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 90 20:30:25 GMT
References: <6924@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: IRS/CI - Technical Solutions Branch
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karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:

>mcs, a poorly named command IMO, can get rid of those guys.  "mcs -d" on
>one of my tasks reduced the size from 98K to 89K bytes.  I recommend putting
>a "mcs -d" in your makefiles right after the "strip", where relevant...

	One of our binaries benefited even more. That curses-based program
shrank from ~195k to ~150k. I came upon this gem while rummaging through
Interactive's software integration routines. Size-wise, I've seen no
difference between running "mcs -d" first then stripping, or the reverse.