John , thank you for pointing out that size() is used in the comparison table, somehow oversaw that.

BTW, out of curiosity where does the extra size come from ? Some elf specific format data ?

On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 5:52 PM, John Spencer <maillist-musl@barfooze.de> wrote:

On 04/07/2013 04:43 PM, Timerlan Moldobaev wrote:

Hi,

Can you please help with reducing the size of statically linked libc.a
library ?
Whereas the comparison table located in
http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html
claims the size of complete .a set as 333k, I got around 2M while building
the library on x86_64 with gcc version 4.1.1.

the comparison page also notes that it is using size(1) and not filesize.

I suppose that might be caused by including in libc.a object files that
belong to libm, librt, libpthread and others.
Am I right ?
Is there any way to compile libc.a solely ?

the only thing that can theoretically be left away is libm, but this would need some effort.
things like pthread support are fundamental to musl's inner workings, so they can not be left away.