> On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 10:06:08AM -0700, Pete Buechler wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Herman Bruyninckx wrote:
> >
> > > We are trying to make MiniRtl floppies with Comedi drivers. But Comedi
> > > seems to need the libc, which is a couple of megabytes big. Is there
the unstripped libc 2.1.2 is 4.X MB but the striped libc is "only" 1080 K
no reason to have unstripped libs on an embedded system I guess.
> > > another, much smaller ``embedded'' libc available? Is newlib from Cygnus
> > > such an alternative? Would it be possible to use it together with Comedi?
> >
> > 1) Try statically linking Comedi, it may be using only a small part of the
> > library.
>
> libcomedi hits some rather sensitive areas of glibc, so statically
> linking anything causes binary sizes of about 300 kB. It shouldn't
> be too hard to knock this down in some cases, i.e., changing a
> sscanf() to strtol() dropped the average binary size of the demos
> to 240 kB. Think I'll keep that change.
>
libc is on minirtl (glibc 2.0.7) so I see no reason why comedi should have
a problem with that.
hofrat
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