Shrinking the size of your executables (mcs(1) command)

[Glenn Geers]

>From article <6924 at sugar.hackercorp.com>, by karl at 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...
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Hey, before you strip it use cprs(1) to remove duplicate structure and union 
references.

cprs oldbin newbin

					Enjoy,
						Glenn

glenn at qed.physics.su.oz.au


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