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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 10:42:48 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: julian@whistle.com, phk@critter.tfs.com
Subject: Re: BLOAT in minimal programs
Cc: current@freebsd.org
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>>I wanted to write a minimal footprint program
>>that would be as tiny as possible..
>
>recompile libc with at least this change in libc/stdlib/malloc.c:
>
>#undef MALLOC_STATS

Even better: don't use malloc():

	main() {} atexit() {}

atexit() is normally linked to and references malloc(), although it
only calls malloc() when there are a lot of atexits.  malloc() now
uses stdio and stdio uses half the universe.

Bruce