static size

[Evgeny Stambulchik]

On 26-Jun-00 Brian Gough wrote:

>  The final size of executable files should be about the same, since the
>  linker should only include the .o files that are used by the program.

Plus the object files the functions in those .o files depend upon etc - while
linking against a dynamic library would add only a negligible amount to the
total size (pointers to the function table).

Regards,

Evgeny

PS. And doing `strip <executable>' would make the code much smaller in size ;-).

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