It was thus said that the Great Carlos Murillo once stated:
 At 09:37 PM 8/22/01 -0400, you wrote:
   I just compiled the C hello world program under
Linux 2.2.12 with
egcs-2.91.66 and got the following:
-rwxrwxr-x   1 spc      spc        932131 Aug 22 21:32 hello 
 Geez, what did you do, load all symbols/debug info for
 all libraries? 
  Statically linked.  The glibc is fairly big.  I don't think it's the
symbol/debug version (since I didn't use `-g') but I would have to double
check that.
  -spc (Could have been worse---libc.a is almost 8M on my system 8-P