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Re: Results with glibc-2.2.92
Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
> Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com> writes:
>
> |> BTW normal binaries, if stripped with strip -g, are still
> |> bloated; you have to do strip --remove-unneeded. (Is that a
> |> bug in strip?)
>
> strip -g only strips debugging symbols. The normal symbol table remains.
On large C++ programs, say 9 MB unstripped, the difference between
-g and --remove-unneeded can be as much as 3 MB. It's astounding.
- Dan