static executable bloat

[Roland McGrath]

> Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:
> 
> > Originally all this stuff was avoided completely in a static program that
> > doesn't call setlocale.
> 
> I never saw that your clever hacks using weak in the locale data parts
> ever worked.  Therefore I remove the traces of it quite some time
> back.

They certainly did work (obviously only for static linking) when I stopped
maintaining libc.  It should not be very difficult to make it work, it's
not all that complicated.