High memory cost of single g_assert() call

[Umut Tezduyar Lindskog <umut tezduyar com>]

I am quite puzzled to see that a single call to glib, g_assert() [1]
is paging in 488 kB [2] of memory for the text section of the library.
That seems to be way too much. What is the rationale behind this?

[1]
int main()
{
  volatile int i = 1;
  g_assert (i > 0);
  sleep (9999);
  return 0;
}

[2]
7f31ac9c4000-7f31acad5000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 32797
  /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0.5400.1
Size:               1092 kB
Rss:                 488 kB
Pss:                 205 kB
Shared_Clean:        340 kB
Shared_Dirty:          0 kB
Private_Clean:       148 kB
Private_Dirty:         0 kB
Referenced:          488 kB
Anonymous:             0 kB
LazyFree:              0 kB
AnonHugePages:         0 kB
ShmemPmdMapped:        0 kB
Shared_Hugetlb:        0 kB
Private_Hugetlb:       0 kB
Swap:                  0 kB
SwapPss:               0 kB
KernelPageSize:        4 kB
MMUPageSize:           4 kB
Locked:                0 kB