Re: Announce: initrd-tftp 0.1

[david parsons]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Avery Pennarun  <[e-mail]> wrote:

>There is something seriously wrong with libc that causes this bloat.  The
>following program compiles to 202640 bytes on my system:
>
>	int main() { }
>	
>Compiled with:
>
>	gcc -static -s -O testy.c -o testy

    It's because you're using the Wrong Library(tm):

[e-mail]# cc -baout -m386 -static -O -s -o testy testy.c
[e-mail]# ls -l testy
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  root  16384 Jan 09 15:58 testy
[e-mail]# ldd testy
        statically linked

    And this is only because libc's exit() code drags in stuff to shut
    down std{in|out|err}, which fouls an amazingly large amount of code.

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    david parsons \bi/ add printf("hello,sailor\n"); and the code bloats
                   \/                                          up to 52k :-(