Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 10:42:48 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: julian@whistle.com, phk@critter.tfs.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BLOAT in minimal programs Message-ID: <199609270042.KAA02056@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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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
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