Re: Giant executables.. what am I doing wrong?

["Claudio Bley" <bley@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>]

>>>>> "Michiel" == Michiel Buddingh' <ajuin+mail@stack.nl> writes:

    Michiel> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:34:55PM -0400, Joshua Nye
    Michiel> wrote:
    >> Sounds like you might need a smaller C library then. Check out
    >> newlib or some other library and see if that fits your problem.
    >> I'm not that familiar with shrinking the C library. =)

    Michiel> Although newlib does look interesting, I doubt the
    Michiel> problem lies with the C library. Unless I'm mistaken,
    Michiel> system calls should have little to do with the C library,
    Michiel> as the program calls the kernel directly.  This supports
    Michiel> my suspicion that gcc is linking in a lot of stuff I
    Michiel> could do without.  -- -- Michiel

Of course, write(2) is a system call, but nonetheless you need an
entry point somewhere to call that function from your program. That's
why gcc links in the C library which defines write as a weak symbol
(at least on my machine).

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