Re: Size of oct-files

[John W. Eaton]

On  3-Oct-2006, José Luis García Pallero wrote:

| You are rigth, David. But I don't undesrtand the "stripped" concept. Can
| somebody explain it to me?

A stripped binary doesn't have debugging symbols.  C++ symbols can be
rather long, so they can take up a fair amount of space so you might
feel tempted to remove them and save a little space.  OTOH, you can't
do much useful debugging without them, they aren't loaded into memory
when you just run the program normally, and these days disk space is
cheap, so why not just keep them?

jwe