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The linker is essentially a shared library, and incorporates it's own copy of libc. Even though it's unnecessary, currently /system/bin/linker is exporting various libc symbols (only to apps which explicitly dlopen /system/bin/linker) Add --exclude-libs,ALL, which tells the static linker to mark all of the imported libc symbols as hidden. This reduces the size of /system/bin/linker from 92K to 67K with no obvious loss in functionality. $ adb shell ls -l /system/bin/linker -rwxrwxrwx root root 92260 2013-01-16 16:52 linker $ adb shell ls -l /system/bin/linker -rwxrwxrwx root root 67660 2013-01-16 16:49 linker Documentation on exclude-libs can be found at http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.21/ld/Options.html Change-Id: I4508287770e4b7a845def2e6b4af969f9c866c6a