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Original author(s) |
Dennis Ritchie ( AT&T Bell Laboratories) |
---|---|
Developer(s) | Various open-source and commercial developers |
Initial release | June 12, 1972 |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Unix, Unix-like, Plan 9, Microsoft Windows |
Platform | Cross-platform |
Type | Command |
License | Plan 9: MIT License |
In
Unix,
Plan 9, and
Unix-like
operating systems, the strip
program removes information from executable binary programs and
object files that is not essential or required for normal and correct
execution, thus potentially resulting in better performance and sometimes significantly less disk space usage. The resulting file is a stripped binary.
The information removed may consist of debugging and symbol information; however, the standard leaves the scope of the changes to the binary up to the implementer of the stripping program[ citation needed].
Furthermore, the use of strip
can improve the security of the binary against
reverse engineering as it would be comparatively more difficult to analyze a binary without the extra information that would otherwise be removed.
The effect of strip
can be achieved directly by the
linker. For instance, in
GNU Compiler Collection this option is "-s
".
The
GNU Project ships an implementation of strip
as part of the
GNU Binutils package. strip
has been ported to other operating systems including
Microsoft Windows.
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (December 2020) |
Original author(s) |
Dennis Ritchie ( AT&T Bell Laboratories) |
---|---|
Developer(s) | Various open-source and commercial developers |
Initial release | June 12, 1972 |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Unix, Unix-like, Plan 9, Microsoft Windows |
Platform | Cross-platform |
Type | Command |
License | Plan 9: MIT License |
In
Unix,
Plan 9, and
Unix-like
operating systems, the strip
program removes information from executable binary programs and
object files that is not essential or required for normal and correct
execution, thus potentially resulting in better performance and sometimes significantly less disk space usage. The resulting file is a stripped binary.
The information removed may consist of debugging and symbol information; however, the standard leaves the scope of the changes to the binary up to the implementer of the stripping program[ citation needed].
Furthermore, the use of strip
can improve the security of the binary against
reverse engineering as it would be comparatively more difficult to analyze a binary without the extra information that would otherwise be removed.
The effect of strip
can be achieved directly by the
linker. For instance, in
GNU Compiler Collection this option is "-s
".
The
GNU Project ships an implementation of strip
as part of the
GNU Binutils package. strip
has been ported to other operating systems including
Microsoft Windows.