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- From: dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (Dave `geek' Gymer)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: What's that switch for GCC again?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.124739.6909@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 12:47:39 GMT
- References: <kenc.722212233@sol>
- Organization: Nottingham University
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- In article <kenc.722212233@sol> kenc@sol.acs.unt.edu (Ken Corey - Operator) writes:
- >The first time I installed GCC ('bout the same time shared libraries first
- >came out, I recall) someone told me that for extremely small programs,
- >there's a way to make GCC not make the 9220 byte size of program, but to
- >cram it all together.
-
- -N will stop gcc padding text and data segments out to 4k (the size of
- a page). You can also give -s to strip the symbol table.
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