On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Ray.
>
> 1. Axel asked about stripping OBJECT files. These are the
> intermediate files created by the compiler and fed to
> the linker, and I'm not sure that it's even possible
> to strip those.
You can strip object files. Some options (including the default)
will make them useless if you do.
Script started on Sat Aug 17 09:47:25 2002
[whit@giftie whit]$ cat hw.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main(){printf("Hello world!\n");
return 0;}
[whit@giftie whit]$ gcc -g -c hw.c
[whit@giftie whit]$ ls -l --color=no hw.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 whit uucp 10572 Aug 17 09:49 hw.o
[whit@giftie whit]$ strip --strip-unneeded hw.o
[whit@giftie whit]$ ls -l --color=no hw.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 whit uucp 868 Aug 17 09:50 hw.o
[whit@giftie whit]$ gcc -o hw hw.o
[whit@giftie whit]$ ./hw
Hello world!
[whit@giftie whit]$ ls -l --color=no hw
-rwxr-xr-x 1 whit uucp 13212 Aug 17 09:50 hw*
[whit@giftie whit]$ strip hw
[whit@giftie whit]$ ls -l --color=no hw
-rwxr-xr-x 1 whit uucp 2984 Aug 17 09:51 hw*
[whit@giftie whit]$ ./hw
Hello world!
[whit@giftie whit]$ strip hw.o
[whit@giftie whit]$ gcc -o hw hw.o
/usr/lib/crt1.o: In function `_start':
/usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x18): undefined reference to `main'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
[whit@giftie whit]$ exit
Script done on Sat Aug 17 09:52:12 2002
> Best wishes from Riley.
>
Lawson
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