gharris999;318270 Wrote: > > Sorry to ask such a noob question, but, what is stripping, and how does > one do it? (faint sound of cymbal crash and snare drum going "bah-dump > bump" in background.) >
Stripping removes information which may be present in the binary, but which is not necessary for executing the file. For example debugging information which enables debuggers to map points in the execution of a process with points in the source code. There can also be other types of extra information. Another source of difference in file size may be due to which which compiler options where used. But the difference seems quite significant, so I doubt that is the whole explanation, but it's hard to say. On my Ubuntu machine lame is 455772. -- bhaagensen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bhaagensen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7418 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49619 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
