Re: AIX Linker Question: Symbol and garbage removal at link time?

Wayne Long <wcl@risc.sps.mot.com> writes:
>[ strip shrank my objects by 100K ]
>My question is, instead of using strip, aren't there options on the
>AIX compiler to do the same thing? I am wondering why these options
>aren't the default?


This is a good question. Many compilers do have a `strip' option,
e.g. with gcc it is `-s', but for some reason it is not the default,
even if you don't specify `-g' during linking.


For the Mercury implementation, I made it pass the appropriate options
to the linker to build a stripped executable by default, unless you
explicitly specified `-g' or `--no-strip'.
No-one has ever complained about this.


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