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From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: STRIPpers
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 14:25:01 -0500
On Wed, 21 Jul 1993, Dave Sherohman wrote:

> I don't see the two working together - either all MPCPs (or at least those
> with the same producer) have the same routines in the same locations (in
> which case you end up with Stripped code being portable) or else every MPCP
> has a unique list of what routines can be found where, in which case the
> Strip program has to know that list (ie be MPCP-specific), in which case it
> would have to compare every sequence of instructions in the MPCP with every
> sequence of instructions in the program in order to find the redundant
> sequences. (Which would allow for a portable Strip, but it would take
> forever and a day to run...)

is STRIP, as written here, anything more that a GREP/DIFF/COMPARE tryp of
thing? I'd think specific location would be irrelevant, just 'Does
function exist in the MCP/do redundant functions exist in the program'.

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