http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20020
--- Comment #32 from Chip Salzenberg <chip at pobox dot com> 2012-08-14 23:09:01 UTC --- More good data: this patch reduces the size of libstdc++.so by .5% $ size usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.17 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.17 text data bss dec hex filename 949608 36200 85088 1070896 105730 usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.17 955484 36200 85088 1076772 106e24 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.17