static executable bloat

Roland McGrath roland@frob.com
Thu Aug 19 09:39:00 GMT 1999


> A much bigger problem is the gconv stuff, which is indirectly referenced
> in strtol via btowc.  The biggest single object file that is included is
> regex.o, which is referenced by gconv_db.c.  I don't see a way to reduce
> this.

Originally all this stuff was avoided completely in a static program that
doesn't call setlocale.


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