static executable bloat

[Ulrich Drepper]

Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:

> They certainly did work (obviously only for static linking) when I stopped
> maintaining libc.  It should not be very difficult to make it work, it's
> not all that complicated.

No, it's not easy.  I don't remember exactly anymore want are the
exact problems but the locale loading code always had problems which
doing only parts of the work.  You might remember, there was code to
prevent loading entire categories if they are not used.  This never
really worked but at that time nobody used the code for real and so
the problems were not discovered.

I personally don't care at all how big static binaries are.  Nobody
must use them except for very few exceptions and for those larger code
size is ok.

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