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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Smaller Code with GCC
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Date: 1 Jun 91 19:17:01 GMT
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It seems that if you compile your optimized code(-O) with debugging
symbols(-g) your code is larger than it has to be.  Programmmers, and
especially commercial vendors, might see if compile without -g reduces
their code by a page to two.  Every little bit helps.

-Mike

BTW, I wonder if NeXT compiled their software with -O -g then stripped
the executables?