[LLVMdev] An interesting comparison.

[Richard Pennington]

[~/ellcc/test/source] main% cat printf.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
     printf("printf with the string \"%s\"\n", "my string");
}
[~/ellcc/test/source] main% ~/ellcc/ellcc/x86-elf-ecc printf.c
[~/ellcc/test/source] main% ./a.out
printf with the string "my string"
[~/ellcc/test/source] main% size a.out
    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   56459    3032      52   59543    e897 a.out
[~/ellcc/test/source] main% gcc -static printf.c
[~/ellcc/test/source] main% ./a.out
printf with the string "my string"
[~/ellcc/test/source] main% size a.out
    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  558317    1928    6948  567193   8a799 a.out
[~/ellcc/test/source] main%

Both a.out files are statically linked.
x86-ecc uses a libc based on newlib, gcc uses glibc (of course).
Is glibc really that ... big?

-Rich