ccoprrm@prism.gatech.EDU (Robert E. Minsk) (03/02/90)
A quick and simple question:
I noticed in the makefile for 4Dgifts/iristools/imgtools that one of the
CFLAGS was -s. The man page makes no mention of this flag. What does it
do?
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Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 " ratcliffe) (03/03/90)
In article <6585@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccoprrm@prism.gatech.EDU (Robert E. Minsk) writes: > > A quick and simple question: >I noticed in the makefile for 4Dgifts/iristools/imgtools that one of the >CFLAGS was -s. The man page makes no mention of this flag. What does it >do? > >-- >Robert E. Minsk - Office of Computing Services | Save the whales... | >ARPA: ccoprrm@prism.gatech.edu | Collect the whole set | >uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!prism!ccoprrm >Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 the "-s" flag derives from LD(1): -s Strip the symbolic information from the output object file. this will pare-down the size of yer final executable by a [potentially] significant amount. the "-s" flag seems to me to be primarily useful when yer generating yer final finished-version of the executable file yer making. at this point, since all symbolic info is now gone, there h'ain't much use re: any kind of debugging since any such minimal hooks still in the executable are now gone. (like if you generate a "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" and then try to do a dbx executable-name (dbx) where you won't be able to get the standard kind of line number/statement-it- failed-on feedback but instead will only see things like: warning: Has no symbol table -- very little is supported without it ) -- daveus rattus yer friendly neighborhood ratman KOYAANISQATSI ko.yan.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi Language) n. 1. crazy life. 2. life in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. 5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.