Strings in Standard Library

[Conor P. Cahill]

todd at toolz.uucp (Todd Merriman) writes:

>I noticed that the last release of the Unix development software
> from Interactive included object libraries with many strings
>imbedded in each object module indicating which header was
>included during compilation. 
>This useless information adds a huge amount of size to
>executables. It would be wonderful if the linker could exclude
>this information, but it can't.  Is it too much to ask of
>Interactive to just leave all that static data out? 

Read the man page for MCS(1) in the programmers reference manual.

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