Re: How create small binaries with GNU binutils.

[Andreas Schwab]

On Feb 01 2019, Dmitry Bogatov <address@hidden> wrote:

> results in huge binary:
>
>       $ du -hb a.out
>       4744    a.out
>       $ strip -s a.out
>       $ du -hb a.out
>       4408    a.out
>       $ file a.out
>       a.out: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically 
> linked, stripped

I cannot reproduce that.

$ stat -c %s a.out
664
$ strip a.out
$ stat -c %s a.out
344
$ size a.out 
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
     13       0       0      13       d a.out
$ rpm -q binutils
binutils-2.31.90-lp150.5.68.1.x86_64

Try examining the files with `readelf -a'.

Andreas.

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