Statically linked binary way way too big

[Denis Vlasenko]

I needed to statically link an application.
I ended up with a.out of 406400 bytes after strip.

Based on release announcements ("we don't want
to hear about size") and discussions with Linus
seen in archive I know that glibc does not try
to minimize library size, but nearly half a megabyte
can never be right.

Is there some problems with linker? Does it discard
all unused sections?

Oh, and here is the source code of that program:

int main() {
        return 0;
}
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