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Re: static size
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- Subject: Re: static size
- From: Evgeny Stambulchik <fnevgeny at plasma-gate dot weizmann dot ac dot il>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 01:55:31 +0300 (IDT)
- Cc: Diego Saravia <dsa at unsa dot edu dot ar>
On 26-Jun-00 Brian Gough wrote:
> The final size of executable files should be about the same, since the
> linker should only include the .o files that are used by the program.
Plus the object files the functions in those .o files depend upon etc - while
linking against a dynamic library would add only a negligible amount to the
total size (pointers to the function table).
Regards,
Evgeny
PS. And doing `strip <executable>' would make the code much smaller in size ;-).
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