Reducing the size of C++ executables - eliminating malloc

[Michael Eager]

GCC 4.1.1 for PowerPC generates a 162K executable for a
minimal program  "int main() { return 0; }".  GCC 3.4.1
generated a 7.2K executable.  Mark Mitchell mentioned the
same problem for ARM and proposed a patch to remove the
reference to malloc in atexit
(http://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2006/msg00181.html).

There are references to malloc in eh_alloc.c and
unwind-dw2-fde.c.  It looks like these are being
included even when there are no exception handlers.

Any suggestions on how to eliminate the references
to these routines?

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