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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Strings in Standard Library
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.144052.19355@virtech.uucp>
Date: 29 Mar 91 14:40:52 GMT
References: <1991Mar28.033357.1439@toolz.uucp>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
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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? 

Read the man page for MCS(1) in the programmers reference manual.

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