How to decrease the size of generated binaries?

Question

I know that there is an option \"-Os\" to \"Optimize for size\", but it has little affect, or even increase the size on some occasion :(

strip (or \"-s\" option) remov

Answer 1

Assuming that another tool is also allowed ;-)

Then consider UPX: the Ultimate Packer for Binaries which uses runtime decompression.

Happy coding.