Alternative PE linkers?

I'm building my Windows project using nasm and (gcc's) ld, and I'm
trying to make the executable file as small as possible.  An annoying
overhead is ld's insistance on padding external symbols to 16-bytes,
as you can see in this extract from the map file:

..text          0x00411ef0        0x8 /MinGW/lib/
libwinmm.a(dgtfs00189.o)
               0x00411ef0                waveOutWrite@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
         0x00411ef8        0x8 00
..text          0x00411f00        0x8 /MinGW/lib/
libwinmm.a(dgtfs00188.o)
               0x00411f00                waveOutUnprepareHeader@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
         0x00411f08        0x8 00
..text          0x00411f10        0x8 /MinGW/lib/
libwinmm.a(dgtfs00183.o)
               0x00411f10                waveOutReset@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
         0x00411f18        0x8 00

I don't think this padding is essential, unless somebody knows
different.  Is there some way to stop ld doing this, or any
alternative PE-format linkers that I might use instead?

Richard.
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