Re: Build a short executable

[Peter Barada <pbarada at mail dot wm dot sps dot mot dot com>]

>>I removed the -g option to generate the cross libraries 
>>(libg.a and libgcc.a) but not for my small files. I used -o2 
>>everywhere and I obtained an executable file of 132656 bytes ! 
>
>  Did you try using the 'strip' command from binutils on the output ? You'd
>be surprised how much difference it might make.  It will be the main reason
>why your exe is so large.
>

Instead of strip, look at it with 'objdump --section-headers'
<foo.elf>.  This will tell you the size of each of the sections in the
executable(and where they are loaded) without losing any of the
symbols from the executable.

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