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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!mozo.cc.purdue.edu!hillres155.cc.purdue.edu!willey From: willey@hillres142.cc.purdue.edu (Mark Willey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Different size of binaries Followup-To: comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Date: 22 Feb 1996 05:15:00 GMT Organization: Purdue University Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4ggu4k$lci@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <4gfo7r$l89@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: hillres155.cc.purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.amiga:12615 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2308 Eka Durmin (eka@stack.urc.tue.nl) wrote: : Hello, : I've downloaded the source and the binary of lha-1.00 for NetBSD-1.1. : The binary is < 60kb. : After I've installed gcc-2.7.0, I tried to recompile lha... : Compiling works ok, but the binary I get was > 300kb. : Why is the new binary so much bigger? What options of gcc should I : turn on/off to make the binaries smaller? Use 'strip' to take out the unneded symbols. Mark