Re: [Tinycc-devel] inefficient/broken static linking? (uclibc on i386)

[u-tcc-uepj]

Hello,

answering my own post.

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 05:21:11PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> It looks like uclibc is not "fully" supported with tcc

> I wonder what is the reason for the executables becoming so big with -static.
> Even "hello world"-style programs become 300k executables while gcc with
> uclibc properly creates corresponding executables sized around 3-5k.

This happens apparently when uclibc supports locales.

This happens even while using gcc so I assume that this is a
uclibc bug not tcc.

A workaround - use an uclibc instance without locales.

Regards,
Rune