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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: git binary size...
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:44:32 -0800 (PST)
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On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
> strip:
> 	strip $(PROGRAMS)
> 
> install: strip

Well, that ends up shaving some more from the binaries, but at a much 
bigger cost than just removing "-g".

With stripped binaries, you can't really do _anything_. You get a 
core-file, and you're screwed. 

With non-stripped binaries you can at least see the function the SIGSEGV 
happened in, and you usually even get a half-way decent backtrace etc.

		Linus