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Re: Trivial program size inflation



>> [...size of a do-nothing program...]

> [...]
> Not to forget the code for C++ support.  And, of course even static
> binaries may call dlopen() and friends.  So that dl*() and the ELF
> bits right there.

dlopen, that doesn't make sense to me.  For a statically linked
program, the linker can tell whether it calls dlopen et al.

Or, to put it another way, even static binaries may call, say, nfssvc
or _hes_error, so why aren't they brought in too?

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