Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 09:05:10 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: julian@whistle.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BLOAT in minimal programs Message-ID: <608.843807910@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Sep 1996 10:42:48 %2B1000." <199609270042.KAA02056@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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In message <199609270042.KAA02056@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes:
>>>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.
Malloc doesn't use stdio if you don't define MALLOC_STATS in it...
I'm not to happy about that being the default, it doesn't matter for
shlib cases, but for static programs it's a pain.
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