On 2010-03-21 22:20, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> From gcc(1): >> >> -s Remove all symbol table and relocation information from the exe- >> cutable. >> >> This is more or less the same as running strip(1) over the produced >> executables. Usually one uses it for non-debug builds. > > That seems a bit harsh (especially because that makes certain > libraries uses kind of moot, like *_p.a, right?). No, since -s only applies to the linking stage, so for executables or shared libraries. It does not apply to object files or libraries. It could be argued that -s really belongs in LDFLAGS... :)Received on Mon Mar 22 2010 - 06:55:23 UTC
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