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NAME

       strcompact - string compaction for object files

SYNOPSIS

       strcompact [ object_name ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       strcompact  scans  the  symbol  and string tables of an object file looking for multiple references in the symbol table to the same string.
       The string offset of symbol table entries is updated to preserve only one copy of the string.

       strcompact cut the size of the kernel string table by about 25%.

       The user must have write permission to the object/executable file.

       strcompact writes to stderr the number of shared strings found.

       strcompact exits 0 if successful, and >0 if an error occurred.

SEE ALSO

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

BUGS

       Execution speed leaves much to be desired - on a 11/73 it takes about 4 minutes to process the string table  of	the  kernel.   Fortunately
       this is only done once when the kernel is created.

       Although strcompact may be run on .o files as well as executables but this is probably not worth the trouble since the linker will not cre-
       ate shared strings in the final executable.

3rd Berkeley Distribution					 January 25, 1994						     strcompact(1)