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From: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net>
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Subject: Re: BLOAT in minimal programs
To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 17:02:10 +1000 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <324A1DAE.41C67EA6@whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Sep 25, 96 11:07:42 pm
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> I wanted to write a minimal footprint program
> that would be as tiny as possible..
> it seems impossible..
> here is the symbol list for this statically linked program.
> it uses NO stdio functions.
> it assings a few integer variables calls a syscall and exits.
> It's over 38K long!
> 
> THIS IS NOT MINIMAL!
> I DID NOT WANT ALL THIS CRAP!
> why oh why did I get malloc?
> vfprintf?
> __CurrentRuneLocale ?
> hell it doesn't even contain a STRING let alone a default nationality!
> 
> etc.etc.
> 
> there has got to be a better way!
> about the only thing I want is errno and some syscalls.
> 
> julian

Try with _main and _exit


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