Re: toolchain/52233: Static binaries are exceptionally massive

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From: coypu%sdf.org@localhost
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: toolchain/52233: Static binaries are exceptionally massive
Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 18:25:01 +0000

 with christos change to src/lib/libc/gen/assert.c:1.18
 a dummy binary is 113K.
 
 nick points out there are calls to sysctl along the way, pulling in some
 of stdio and more. there's at least one in
 _libc_init->__guard_setup->use sysctl to get random numbers, possibly
 more.