Giant executables.. what am I doing wrong?

[Joshua Nye]

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. =)

http://sources.redhat.com/newlib/

--josh

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michiel Buddingh'" <ajuin+mail@stack.nl>
To: <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: Giant executables.. what am I doing wrong?


> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:08:06PM -0400, Joshua Nye wrote:
> > Are you sure you want to create a static executable?
>
> Yes. :)
>
> > If you are trying to
> > save memory, shared executables are probably better.
>
> True. But the system I'm programming for is going to be severely
> limited in memory. Limited to 4 MB of RAM, to be exact. It is not
> going to have virtual memory, and disk space will be less than 1 MB.
>   Furthermore, I expect it's perfectly feasible to implement the
> program I'm writing using system calls only. Given that, it doesn't
> make sense to build it as a shared executable.
>
> --
> -- Michiel
>