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From: ccoprrm@prism.gatech.EDU (Robert E. Minsk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: follow up to -s flag
Message-ID: <6631@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 3 Mar 90 06:31:19 GMT
Reply-To: ccoprrm@prism.gatech.EDU (Robert E. Minsk)
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Organization: Office of Computing Service - High Performace Computing
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  The reason the -s flag is not in the man page for cc is because it is a
ld flag.  Options that affect the linking and loading of files are passed by
cc to ld, which is standard across most unix machines.  I should of read the
man page more carefully :-).  This sort of ties in with the recent discussion
about keeping executable sizes down, the -s option is same as the strip
command - remove the symbol table from the executable.  I would not
do this until you feel the program is completely debuged or is being released.
After the symbol table is removed debugers are almost totally useless.

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