Strings in Standard Library
Conor P. Cahill
cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Sat Mar 30 00:40:52 AEST 1991
todd at toolz.uucp (Todd Merriman) writes:
>I noticed that the last release of the Unix development software
> from Interactive included object libraries with many strings
>imbedded in each object module indicating which header was
>included during compilation.
>This useless information adds a huge amount of size to
>executables. It would be wonderful if the linker could exclude
>this information, but it can't. Is it too much to ask of
>Interactive to just leave all that static data out?
Read the man page for MCS(1) in the programmers reference manual.
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