Results with glibc-2.2.92

[Dan Kegel]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 
> Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com> writes:
> 
> |> BTW normal binaries, if stripped with strip -g, are still
> |> bloated; you have to do strip --remove-unneeded.  (Is that a
> |> bug in strip?)
> 
> strip -g only strips debugging symbols.  The normal symbol table remains.

On large C++ programs, say 9 MB unstripped, the difference between
-g and --remove-unneeded can be as much as 3 MB.  It's astounding.
- Dan