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Removed redundant verbiage. Rewrote a very clumsy sentence.

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To speak of a difference (implying subtraction) and a factor
(multiplication) as equivalent is confusing at best.
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the debugger can provide not only memory addresses, but also
the names of the routines and variables.</para>
<para>However, the inclusion of these debugging symbols enlarges a
program or library significantly. The following is an example of the
<para>The inclusion of these debugging symbols enlarges a
program or library significantly. Here are two examples of the
amount of space these symbols occupy:</para>
<itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>A <command>bash</command> binary without debugging symbols:
480 KB</para>
480 KB (60% smaller)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Glibc and GCC files (<filename class="directory">/lib</filename>
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symbols: 87 MB</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Glibc and GCC files without debugging symbols: 16 MB</para>
<para>Glibc and GCC files without debugging symbols: 16 MB (82% smaller)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Sizes may vary depending on which compiler and C library were used,
but when comparing programs with and without debugging symbols, the
difference will usually be a factor between two and five.</para>
<para>Because most users will never use a debugger on their system software,
<para>Sizes will vary depending on which compiler and C library were used,
but a program that has been stripped of debugging symbols is usually some
50% to 80% smaller than its unstripped counterpart.
Because most users will never use a debugger on their system software,
a lot of disk space can be regained by removing these symbols. The next
section shows how to strip all debugging symbols from the programs and
libraries.</para>