Apparently, though unproven, at 00:37 on Saturday 04 December 2010, Grant Edwards did opine thusly:
> 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. :/ That's 8% of your space resources. Many more than just you will notice and care and whinge loudly. Probably including me. It might be worth the effort to switch to a libc designed for the sort of task you want to accomplish. I assume you already made the effort with busybox or similar, it's much the same viewpoint. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
