Binary size of the libstdc++.so library

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 17, 2000, "Dr. David Gilbert" <dg@px.uk.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
>> Did you strip(1) the library?

> Ah thanks - yes I have now and it got it down to 800K; I must admit I had
> presumed that you couldn't strip shared libraries (I thought they needed 
> the symbols...).

Usually, you can't just `strip' them, otherwise you won't be able to
link any program with them, but you can always `--strip-debug' them.

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