[hagbard_c]

On the subject of symbols:

> Yeah, that’s it. Now, 2308 may be slightly bloated because we link against musl instead of glibc, but the point still stands: There’s a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes here.

Slightly bloated is a slight understatement. The same program linked to glibc tops at 36 symbols in .symtab:

    $ readelf -a hello|grep "'.symtab'"
    Symbol table '.symtab' contains 36 entries:

[amitprasad]

Ah I should have taken the time to verify; It might also have something to do with the way I was compiling / cross-compiling for RISC-V!

More generally, I'm not surprised at the symtab bloat from statically-linking given the absolute size increase of the binary.