about strip

[George2]

Hello everyone,


Could anyone show me how to use strip under Linux, for example, strip -s. I have read the Linux man manual of strip, but more confused after reading it.

I am also wondering in what situations do you use it?


thanks in advance,
George

[Salem]

We're not your manual pages.
Also, quit posting posts like this on the C board.

The symbol table is used by the debugger.
Removing it makes the file both smaller and much harder to debug.
There's not much else to say.

[George2]

Thank you Salem,

We're not your manual pages.
Also, quit posting posts like this on the C board.

The symbol table is used by the debugger.
Removing it makes the file both smaller and much harder to debug.
There's not much else to say.

I think for debug mode application, we should not remove the symbol table, right?


regards,
George

[Salem]

Well you could try debugging a stripped application just so you know...

Besides, there isn't really a lot of need with todays really cheap disks and plentiful memory. It's only when you're doing something odd like trying to get Linux onto a floppy where every byte counts.