Increased binary size in RedHat 7 using gcc

[H . J . Lu]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 10:36:08PM -0800, Pawan Singh wrote:
> So why does linking with a different library i.e. glibc increase the
> "HelloWorld" program code size? Can someone explain this? How much of the
> code and data in a program like "HelloWorld" are from "glibc".
> 

"HelloWorld" is a small program. From what I can tell, the main
size increase comes from crt*.o, which are necessary.

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H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)