Re: [Haifux] Huge file with static linking

[Oron Peled]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 00:22:59 +0200
"Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003, Eli Billauer wrote about "[Haifux] Huge file with static 
> linking":
> > Any suggestions of how to shrink this down to some normal size?
> What happens has a simple name: bloat.

Yes, but that's what we have dietlibc for. Look:

        [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/tmp]$ gcc -o t t.c
        [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/tmp]$ ls -l t
        -rwxr-xr-x    1 oron     users       11348 Mar  7 09:01
        [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/tmp]$ diet gcc -o t t.c
        [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/tmp]$ ls -l t
        -rwxr-xr-x    1 oron     users        1728 Mar  7 09:02

So most of the bloat is in glibc (it has to support a lot of
optional code [e.g: nsswitch, resolving etc.])


----------------------------------------------------------------
Oron Peled                             Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492
[EMAIL PROTECTED]                  http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that
created them.
                 -- A. Einstein

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org)
To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]