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From: tmh@prosun.first.gmd.de (Thomas Hoberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Strings in Standard Library
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Date: 29 Mar 91 03:09:52 GMT
References: <1991Mar28.033357.1439@toolz.uucp>
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In article <1991Mar28.033357.1439@toolz.uucp>, todd@toolz.uucp (Todd Merriman) writes:
|> I noticed that the last release of the Unix development software
|>  from Interactive included object libraries with many strings
|> imbedded in each object module indicating which header was
|> included during compilation. 
|> 
|> This useless information adds a huge amount of size to
|> executables. It would be wonderful if the linker could exclude
|> this information, but it can't.  Is it too much to ask of
|> Interactive to just leave all that static data out? 
|> 
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Lookup the 'mcs' command (manage comment structures?). 'mcs -d' will delete
the comment strings, 'mcs -c' will remove duplicates, 'mcs -p' will print them
and there was something else I'd have to look up, too.
While I haven't used that information myself, somebody must have thought these
worthwhile.
I keep promising myself that once I'll read those manuals from cover to cover...

-- tom
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