On 2010-12-03, David W Noon <[email protected]> wrote:
> What you are seeing is a lot of glibc routines being included by the
> linkage editor. These handle all sorts of conditions that will
> likely never occur in your program.
>
> Try using a smaller C library, like uclibc or klibc. They might not
> work as well, but they will give you a smaller executable.
>
> Alternatively, try rewriting your code in assembler.
For various reasons (which I doubt anybody cares about), gritting my
teeth and living with the 520K per application looks like a more
practical solution that either using assembler or a different libc.
In practice, I'm sure nobody but me will ever even notice (or care
even if they did notice) the wasted 2MB on a 25MB liveCD. But it will
still bug me. :/
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