stripping binaries?

[Nikos Kouremenos]

On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 21:21, Alaios wrote:
> 3.3 Stripping Binaries Let's start reducing the size
> of binaries. it will do away with
> symbols embedded in binaries.

kanei afto pou leei. aferei ola ta symbols apo to executable. genika
mikrenei arketa to arxeio. tora an afta pou sbinei eine xrisima gia
kapion allo den xero. [pados trexei mia xara]
den xero an ehi kai poli noima na kaneis strip adiakritos, ektos kai an
ehi megalo problima xorou sto disko. opote give it a try!

> Episis anaferei to upx...leei na to katebaso kai na to
> trekso. Kserete ti prosferei ayto to programma?

kai tora erxomaste sto upx. to upx [an eho katalabei kala] kani kati san
mia ensomatomeni sibiesi sto executable. diladi afu to piraxeis me to
upx, to executable sinexizei apla na thelei ./foo alla [apo apo ta liga
pou eho diabasei] eine ligo-os-poly [oi apopseis diistade] pio argo stin
ektelesi.

aftos mallon leei alla. tespa kai ta dio lene gia na rixneis to
filesize. [to strip kane to oposdipote]

UPX is a free, portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer
for several different executable formats. It achieves an excellent
compression ratio and offers very fast decompression. Your executables
suffer no memory overhead or other drawbacks because of in-place
decompression.

man strip
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