Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 17 Oct 1996 23:40:10 +0100 | From | Michael Riepe <> | Subject | Re: ELF - are .comment and .note sections needed? Inline syscalls? |
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From: Tom Zerucha <root@deimos.ceddec.com>
> I was experimenting to see how small I could make an executable, and found > that readelf showed .comment and .note sections in the code. It would > sometimes show others too. Are they used for any purpose? strip won't > remove them unless you specifically say --remove-section= for each one you > want to remove. [...]
I usually delete all .note and .comment sections from installed binaries (including shared libraries) and I didn't have any problems yet. It just saves me a couple of MBytes :)
You could also strip off the symbol table of your shared libraries - if there weren't some braindead software configuration scripts out there that read it in order to find out which functions are present...
Michael. -- Michael "Tired" Riepe <riepe@ifwsn4.ifw.uni-hannover.de> "Beware the storm that gathers here!" (The Prophet's Song)
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