Subject: Re: bin/425: making ld.so a bit smaller
To: None <thomas@mathematik.uni-Bremen.de>
From: J.T. Conklin <jconklin@netcom.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/20/1994 18:36:32
> 	ld.so is currently linked with the full vfprintf from the C library.
> 	Since it doesn't need the floating point formatting capabilities
> 	they can be removed to get 16KB (on the i386 at least) back.

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. 

	--jtc


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