This library is HUGE! And whats libsupc++?
Usually the size of libraries on disk isn’t noticeable. When a link editor (or simply “linker”) pulls things from a static archive library, only the necessary object files are copied into your executable, not the entire library. Unfortunately, even if you only need a single function or variable from an object file, the entire object file is extracted. (There’s nothing unique to C++ or libstdc++-v3 about this; it’s just common behavior, given here for background reasons.) Some of the object files which make up libstdc++.a are rather large. If you create a statically-linked executable with -static, those large object files are suddenly part of your executable. Historically the best way around this was to only place a very few functions (often only a single one) in each source/object file; then extracting a single function is the same as extracting a single .o file. For libstdc++-v3 this is only possible to a certain extent; the object files in question contain template classes and templa
