static executable bloat

[Geoff Keating]

> From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
> Date: 19 Aug 1999 11:02:02 -0700

> 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.

If people really want small static binaries, I'd suggest newlib;
that's one of the reasons it exists.

-- 
Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>