extra info for stripping debug symbols #59
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I don't know if this is of interest in your repo, but given that a) stripping debug symbols is (one of) the best ways to reduce the size of your binary, and b) often you want to keep debug symbols around for, well, debugging purposes, I thought it would maybe be helpful to include a bit of extra context here.
It took me a while to figure this out, because just naively saving the symbols to a second file doesn't work, as noted here but I finally found a post by @p-kraszewski that showed me the magic incantation to get this to work.
Feel free to reject/close/modify if you think this isn't useful!