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From: cgwillme@pyramid.swansea.ac.uk (Ramiro Wilmersdorf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Strip CSBuild files !!
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Date: 12 Feb 91 17:35:50 GMT
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Hi,

This is of interest only to Meiko CSTools users.

I don't know if other people have noticed this peculiar thing (bcc.c is a very
small CSBuild source file) :


cvser[../m3] 43 % ll bcc.c
-rw-r--r--  1 cgwillme     1872 Feb 11 18:09 bcc.c
cvser[../m3] 44 % cc -O -o bcc bcc.c -lbuild -lcsn -lsvcs
cvser[../m3] 45 % ll bcc
-rwxr-xr-x  1 cgwillme  1056768 Feb 12 17:22 bcc*
cvser[../m3] 46 % strip bcc
cvser[../m3] 47 % ll bcc
-rwxr-xr-x  1 cgwillme   385024 Feb 12 17:23 bcc*

And bcc apparently runs fine.

The size of the executable bcc is reduced to ~ 1/3 of the original.

Is this normal ? The host machine is a sun 4, and non cstools executables
are generally reduced in size by some 10 or 15 percent. I suppose all
symbols for all meiko libraries are linked in (very wild guess).

It's not really a problem, but I thought it might be nice to let you 
know how to gain some free disk space.

Cheers,

Ramiro