A little, because your observation evidences bad default configuration of one particular compiler targeting linux rather than a inherent property of linux devel

A little, because your observation evidences bad default configuration of one particular compiler targeting linux rather than a inherent property of linux develoment in general. To be fair, this is a recurring problem with modern mainstream compilers (linux and otherwise), though. See http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm... for a example of going very far (maybe even too far, once they start overlapping things, but YMMV) in the opposite direction.