Re: to reduce footprint

Hi,

not sure what you are building and how you are doing it with gcc. If you use
pretty much the default compiler options, than the "strip.exe" program might
remove some debug information in your program. This can reduce it's size
approx 6 times. There might be compiler and linker options that exclude the
debug info during make phase, but I don't know them. You might ask this
question in a linux newsgroup, as they are more familiar with the gcc tools.

regards,

Luc


"George" <George@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello everyone,


I am wondering how to reduce the footprint of a binary build (C/C++)
program
generated by gcc.

1. Any ideas of reduce the footprint of a debug version build?
2. Any ideas of reduce the footprint of a release version build?

I think some linker or compiler options may help, what are they? Any other
ideas to reduce footprint?


thanks in advance,
George


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