I have also faced similar issue with libstdc++ try enabling garbage collector flags which will reduce the size up to some extent. ( Add -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections flags to your compiler flags and -Wl,--gc-sections to your linker flags ) or else use alternatives of iostream function i.e. instead of cout function use printf etc, try to avoid adding <iostream> library if you can.. On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/09/2013 02:39 PM, Henrik Mannerström wrote: >> >> On 07/09/2013 03:30 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: >>> >>> >>> Do you link statically, by chance? What does "ldd ./main" show? >>> >> linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffdbec0000) >> libgsl.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libgsl.so.0 (0x000000347b200000) >> libcblas.so.3 => /usr/lib64/atlas/libcblas.so.3 >> (0x0000003477c00000) >> libatlas.so.3 => /usr/lib64/atlas/libatlas.so.3 >> (0x0000003477000000) >> libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x0000003463e00000) >> libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x0000003464200000) >> libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x0000003464a00000) >> /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003463a00000) > > > Looks like you're linking statically against libstdc++. Hard to tell if > that's the real cause of the bloat you're seeing, though. > > > -- > Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team