1strcompact(1)               General Commands Manual              strcompact(1)
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NAME

6       strcompact - string compaction for object files
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SYNOPSIS

9       strcompact [ object_name ... ]
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DESCRIPTION

12       strcompact scans the symbol and string tables of an object file looking
13       for multiple references in the symbol table to the  same  string.   The
14       string  offset  of symbol table entries is updated to preserve only one
15       copy of the string.
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17       strcompact cut the size of the kernel string table by about 25%.
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19       The user must have write permission to the object/executable file.
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21       strcompact writes to stderr the number of shared strings found.
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23       strcompact exits 0 if successful, and >0 if an error occurred.
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SEE ALSO

26       sort(1), symcompact(1), symorder(1), uniq(1)
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BUGS

29       Execution speed leaves much to be desired - on a 11/73 it takes about 4
30       minutes to process the string table of the kernel.  Fortunately this is
31       only done once when the kernel is created.
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33       Although strcompact may be run on .o files as well as  executables  but
34       this is probably not worth the trouble since the linker will not create
35       shared strings in the final executable.
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393rd Berkeley Distribution      January 25, 1994                  strcompact(1)
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