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    strcompact(1)	    UNIX Programmer's Manual	    strcompact(1)

    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 exe-
         cutables but this is probably not worth the trouble since
         the linker will not create shared strings in the final exe-
         cutable.

    Printed 11/26/99	January 25, 1994			1

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