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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: relative value of stripping symbols
Message-ID: <1522@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 1 May 89 20:12:37 GMT
References: <17615@cisunx.UUCP> <690011@hpfelg.HP.COM> <889@bbx.UUCP>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >If you are using 'strip' for security you should perhaps consider
 >using the '-s' option in 'ld' instead.  On one of the systems that
 >we ported to the 'strip' command simply set a pointer/flag to tell
 >'nm' that there weren't any symbols.  File size remained the same.
 >
 >using 'cc -s' generated an executable considerably smaller...

Then maybe you should consider filing a bug report against the vendor of
the system in question.