relative value of stripping symbols

[Guy Harris]

 >If you are using 'strip' for security you should perhaps consider
 >using the '-s' option in 'ld' instead.  On one of the systems that
 >we ported to the 'strip' command simply set a pointer/flag to tell
 >'nm' that there weren't any symbols.  File size remained the same.
 >
 >using 'cc -s' generated an executable considerably smaller...

Then maybe you should consider filing a bug report against the vendor of
the system in question.