Re: newlib, uclib

In message [ref] Tom Roberts wrote:

Ruedi.Hofer@ascom.ch wrote:

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In order to build a commercially successful product I have to reduce the footprint of the system.
Having a quick look at the files showed me, that the largest files are the libs (libc.so.6 = 4M) ... as u all know.

Initially I also thought I would have to strip down the libraries
to reduce their footprint. But then I realized that Linux is a demand-
paged system, and only the pages which actually get used will be
loaded into memory. In our case only memory is an issue, the disk
space required is not important. So making libc include _everything_

You have a disk, then.

Ruedi is probably on an embedded system, loading a compressed  initrd
image from Flash into a ramdisk.

Both flash and RAM are resources which get tight all too often.

Wolfgang Denk

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