follow up to -s flag

Robert E. Minsk ccoprrm at prism.gatech.EDU
Sat Mar 3 17:31:19 AEST 1990


  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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