SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: To clarify this, both of these binaries have identical configurations, they are both built with -g, I haven't changed any system software since I installed gcc-2.95 on August 4th. They have identical lists of shared libraries as shown by ldd. Comparative output from size is: $ size src/xemacs* text data bss dec hex filename 2384350 3030336 0 5414686 529f1e src/xemacs 2063120 3035984 0 5099104 4dce60 src/xemacs.RUNNING Comparative sizes of the symbol tables: $ nm src/xemacs | wc 10473 30872 297690 $ nm src/xemacs.RUNNING | wc 10601 31263 304660 The larger binary has a *smaller* symbol table.