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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.questions,gnu.emacs.help,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: strip
- Followup-To: comp.unix.questions,gnu.emacs.help
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 18:21:24 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <4iv28f$r84@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>,
- Benito Gattuso <fj4a013@rzaix42.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
- >If I strip a binary, does it become better or worse?
-
- It becomes smaller. All it does is remove the symbol table which is put at the
- end of the file. It has not effect on the code or data sections of the
- executable.
-
- >I've heard, one mussn't strip the emacs binary,
- >because its performance would become worse.
- >Is that so really?
-
- No idea. I use vi. GNUEmacs is some sort of restarted core-dump thing, so
- handle with care.
-
- [ redirected out of comp.lang.c where this clearly, utterly does not belong ]
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