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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Peter, can you explain to the Amigoids (was: NeXT software size
Message-ID: <3505.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 10 May 91 07:01:24 GMT
References: <11877@uwm.edu> <xn8Gty-&1@cs.psu.edu> <3320.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1991May9.172113.2468@sugar.hackercorp.com>
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Quoted from <1991May9.172113.2468@sugar.hackercorp.com> by peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva):
> In article <3320.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
> > Quoted from <xn8Gty-&1@cs.psu.edu> by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger):
> > > The symbol table is include with the executable(I'm pretty sure of
> 
> >     Gak. Surely this isn't the usual case?
> 
> Yes, but it doesn't get loaded into RAM. It's very useful, particularly on
> UNIX where you can restart a crashed or killed program under the debugger.

    The first thing I trim when I PowerPack a program on the Ami, if the
    programmer has been careless enough to leave this stuff in a
    distributed version of their software.

    This would certainly put off the folks who care about small things
    like excess LINK and UNLK instructions wasting HD space...

> Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
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