Re: serial.c

From: Philip Blundell (Philip.Blundell@pobox.com)
Date: Mon May 15 2000 - 14:38:34 EST


>The biggest issue in saving ROM space on Linux IMHO is the C library.
>GlibC is just huge: a simple "main(){}" yields a 200KB (!) no-op executable
>when linked statically against glibc. If you can afford to switch back
>to the old libc5, things get significantly better.

This should be somewhat better in glibc 2.2 also.

p.

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