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> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:44:12 +0300
> From: Ozkan Sezer <sezeroz AT gmail DOT com>
> 
> Recent(ish) src/libc/ansi/time/ctime.c changes add about 4.5k more
> size to the final stripped binary:
> 
> #include <time.h>
> int main () {
>  return time(NULL);
> }
> 
> Linking against v2.04 from 2011-10-01 gives a 91648 bytes a.exe,
> whereas linking against v2.04 from 2014-04-20 gives a 96256 bytes
> a.exe. (not mentioning at all the crazy sizes themselves which is
> irrelevant to the present case at hand.)  A "return 0" instead of
> a "return time(NULL)" yields a 52736 bytes exe, so ctime.c stuff
> is adding about 43k size.
> 
> time() calls gettimeofday() which calls 0x2c and 0x2a dos functions
> and calls ctime.c::mktime() where the additional bloat happens.
> 
> Is there no other way of reducing the code size here?

Can you identify the additions/changes that cause the bloat?  (Or
maybe you already did above, and I missed that?)