Making Glibc binaries*smaller*

[Jeff Bailey]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:19:58AM -0500, Boris wrote:

> I have read a few of the previous posts and I do agree that Glibc is now
> becoming *very* much bloated. It would be nice to get glibc libraries
> smaller or even rewritten. I have seen other projects like dietlibc and
> uclibc and it would be nice to see if glibc could get that small. [Or
> atleast much smaller]

People seem to use the term 'bloat' when they really mean 'I don't
understand why these features are important'.  What features don't
you care about?  Internationalisation?  Standards compliance?  Threading?
Cross-platform support?

drepper et al's posts are quite clear why even simple programs that
contain printf have so much code associated with them - If your programs
are never intended to work on a variety of systems, chances are glibc
is not a good choice for you.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

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