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Re: static executable bloat


Geoff Keating <geoffk@ozemail.com.au> writes:

> If people really want small static binaries, I'd suggest newlib;
> that's one of the reasons it exists.

I'm not sure.  Mostly those guys want to use it for programs like rpm
or equivalent.  But these programs require completel
internationalization (at least everybody wants to do it in the next
release).  So they want to have tiny little binaries with the full
functionality.

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