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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