> 
> > We could do the same for many of the statically linked executables.  We'd
> > save a few K here and there, but I don't think it is worth the hassle. 
> > 
> > Various different utilities pulling in vfprintf.c from the C library seems
> > to be a maintenance headache waiting to happen. 
> 
> I agree completely.  One could go on forever doing this, and have
> little more than a lot of #ifdefs and maybe 300k of disk space.
> 
I understand the point.  I wouldn't do this for any other executables, but 
IMHO ld.so is a special case (the only must be statically linked binary).
I don't have a single statically linked binary on my system.  My
emergency/install boot floppies also do only have dynamically linked
executables on them (you can put quite a few utilities on a floppy disk if
everything is linked dynamically).

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