Linux binary size after strip

[H. J. Lu]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 05:36:27PM +0100, Javier Cabezas Rodríguez wrote:
> El mié, 22-11-2006 a las 16:03 +0000, Nick Clifton escribió:
> > Hi Javier,
> > 
> > > Now I have stripped some of these sections, but the size of the binary
> > > has not decreased. 
> > 
> > Possibly the sections have alignment requirements so that after 
> > stripping they are still padded out to some fixed size ?
> 
> Each section has a 4096 alignment requirement, but they are 4096bytes
> sized too, so it should not be a problem. I have attached the "readelf
> -Sl" output of each kernel.
> 
> 1- Original kernel:       2396464 bytes
> 2- Partitioned kernel: 2144924 bytes
> 3- Stripped kernel:       2143660 bytes
> 
> > Possibly the kernel is already frugal with the symbols and debug 
> > information it exports and there is nothing to strip.
> 
> The sections I want to strip only contain code (initially located in
> the .text section). The debug sections are already stripped in standard
> kernels.
> 

Please send me the original kernel and the command you used to
strip it.


H.J.