karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) (10/30/90)
The "mcs" command, used to manipulate the object file comment section in System V, does not appear to be a very well-known command, in that I have never seen it mentioned on the net. Anyone who has done a "what" on an executable after stripping the symbol table has been dismayed to see countless "Unix System V/386 Release 3.2 lib/libc.a" messages and so forth. mcs, a poorly named command IMO, can get rid of those guys. "mcs -d" on one of my tasks reduced the size from 98K to 89K bytes. I recommend putting a "mcs -d" in your makefiles right after the "strip", where relevant... -- -- uunet!sugar!karl -- Usenet access: (713) 438-5018
shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) (10/31/90)
karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: >mcs, a poorly named command IMO, can get rid of those guys. "mcs -d" on >one of my tasks reduced the size from 98K to 89K bytes. I recommend putting >a "mcs -d" in your makefiles right after the "strip", where relevant... One of our binaries benefited even more. That curses-based program shrank from ~195k to ~150k. I came upon this gem while rummaging through Interactive's software integration routines. Size-wise, I've seen no difference between running "mcs -d" first then stripping, or the reverse.
glenn@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (Glenn Geers) (10/31/90)
From article <6924@sugar.hackercorp.com>, by karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer): > The "mcs" command, used to manipulate the object file comment section in > System V, does not appear to be a very well-known command, in that I > have never seen it mentioned on the net. > > Anyone who has done a "what" on an executable after stripping the symbol > table has been dismayed to see countless "Unix System V/386 Release 3.2 > lib/libc.a" messages and so forth. > > mcs, a poorly named command IMO, can get rid of those guys. "mcs -d" on > one of my tasks reduced the size from 98K to 89K bytes. I recommend putting > a "mcs -d" in your makefiles right after the "strip", where relevant... > -- > -- uunet!sugar!karl > -- Usenet access: (713) 438-5018 Hey, before you strip it use cprs(1) to remove duplicate structure and union references. cprs oldbin newbin Enjoy, Glenn glenn@qed.physics.su.oz.au -- Glenn Geers | "So when it's over, we're back to people. Department of Theoretical Physics | Just to prove that human touch can have The University of Sydney | no equal." Sydney NSW 2006 Australia | - Basia Trzetrzelewska, 'Prime Time TV'
tim@delluk.uucp (Tim Wright) (11/03/90)
On using 'mcs -d', that's right. I believe Rick Richardson posted about this a few months ago. If you don't want to kill all the ident lines, but merely make sure there's only one copy of each (still get's good compression), use 'mcs -c' instead. Tim -- Tim Wright, Dell Computer Corp. (UK) | Email address Dell Computer Corp. (UK), Bracknell | Domain: tim@dell.co.uk Tel: +44-344-860456 | Uucp: ...!ukc!delluk!tim "What's the problem? You've got an IQ of six thousand, haven't you?"