Generated binary size

[Iain Buclaw]

On 15 September 2013 22:05, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 15 September 2013 21:02, Dicebot <public at dicebot.lv> wrote:
>> On Sunday, 15 September 2013 at 19:59:48 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>>>
>>> On 15 September 2013 20:46, Dicebot <public at dicebot.lv> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, 13 September 2013 at 18:09:15 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> du -h lib64/libgphobos2.a
>>>>> 73M    lib64/libgphobos2.a
>>>>>
>>>>> strip --strip-unneeded  lib64/libgphobos2.a
>>>>>
>>>>> du -h lib64/libgphobos2.a
>>>>> 18M    lib64/libgphobos2.a
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well, looks like you have just found a bug in default Arch Linux
>>>> makepkg.conf :) It does only "--strip-debug" for static libraries (for
>>>> unknown reasons I am trying to figure out).
>>>>
>>>> Thanks :)
>>>
>>>
>>> --strip-debug should do the trick as well...  --strip-unneeded
>>> probably isn't recommended for libraries. ;)
>>
>>
>> Well, with --strip-debug it is back to the original situation in the very
>> first comment, numbers there are with --strip-debug (what is the potential
>> danger with --strip-unneeded?)
>
> --strip-unneeded could potentially cause lots of undefined reference
> errors on static libraries.  Shared libraries don't suffer this
> because symbols are put into a special section which strip knows not
> to touch.
>

Just tested on my system,

original size = 74240.
strip-debug size = 17800.
strip-unneeded size = 17448.

So --strip-debug should is sufficient in reducing binary sizes.

-- 
Iain Buclaw

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