static executable bloat

[Philip Blundell]

>#include <stdio.h>
>int main(int argc, char **argv)
>{
>  printf ("Hello World\n");
>}
>
>compiles to 985,018 bytes.  This is almost all libc overhead.
>Most of which is never going to be needed.

Yes, it is a bit sad.  Somewhere I have some half-baked patches that allow you 
to stub out the majority of the gconv and wchar code at configure time; I did 
this for an internal project where the resulting binaries had to fit into ROM.

The other thing I looked at was dropping the stdio implementation from newlib 
(which is far less featureful but also a whole lot smaller) into libc.  I 
think I got that to mostly work and again I can probably dig out some patches 
if anyone is interested.

p.