On Sat, 26 Oct 2013, Laurent Bercot wrote: > > The program I was compiling (a CLI wall-clock) is thrice bigger with > > musl than with diet. Most binaries of your software are *smaller* with > > musl, a notable exception being s6-mount (almost twice with musl!). > > That's probably stdio. > musl's stdio is scrupulously conformant whereas diet's stdio isn't, > so musl's is bigger. (It takes a lot of effort, and a lot of code, to > correctly implement that demented specification.) > s6-mount uses getmntent() for /etc/fstab parsing, which pulls in the > FILE structure and likely a good portion of stdio. > My program doesn't include the stdio library, and I suppose most of yours don't either (at least, not directly). Maybe localtime is to blame. Anyway, I just meant that it is not clear which libc will produce leaner binaries.
Jorge
