89 lines
3.1 KiB
Groff
89 lines
3.1 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: elfstrip.1,v 1.2 1997/01/09 20:18:39 tls Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
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.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\"
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
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.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
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.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
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.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
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.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
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.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" from: @(#)strip.1 6.6 (Berkeley) 5/26/91
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.\" $NetBSD: elfstrip.1,v 1.2 1997/01/09 20:18:39 tls Exp $
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.\"
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.Dd September 30, 1996
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.Dt ELFSTRIP 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm elfstrip
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.Nd remove unnecessary information from ELF executable files
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm elfstrip
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.Ar file ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm elfstrip
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utility
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deletes the relocation information and symbol table used by
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assemblers, loaders and debuggers.
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This significantly
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decreases the size of the installed binaries and saves disk space.
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.Pp
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.Nm Elfstrip
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is more aggressive about stripping unecessary information
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than the GNU equivalent. The
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GNU binutils
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.Xr size 1
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utility uses the "unecessary" information and may not be able to
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find the size of executable segments of stripped files.
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The strippped files are still correctly executed.
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.Pp
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.Nm Strip
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exits 0 on success and 1 if an error occurred.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr cc 1 ,
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.Xr ld 1 ,
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.Xr elf 5
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.Sh BUGS
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The following
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.Xr strip 1
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options are not supported:
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.Bl -tag -width Ds
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.It Fl d
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Delete only debugging and empty symbols.
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.It Fl x
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Delete only debugging, compiler identification, and local symbols.
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.El
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.Sh HISTORY
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A
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.Xr strip 1
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command appeared in
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.At v6 .
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This
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.Nm elfstrip
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command first appeared in
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.Nx 1.1 .
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