Re: assembler [was: Re: cheers for gogo]

[Dr A V Le Blanc <nospam [at] mcc.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 09:38:14AM -0000, Foz wrote:
> The Linux compile only brings in 12 - 15 k of library code, whereas 
> the dos equivalent (DJGPP) brings in 100k - yup HelloWorld.exe in 
> C is 100k, asm HelloWorld.com is 18 bytes. I like.

By the way, has anyone seen ELFkickers?  It produces the following
tiny binaries:

     -rwx--x--x   1    128 Mar 14 09:54 cat
     -rwx--x--x   1   1000 Mar 14 09:54 factor
     -rwx--x--x   1     59 Mar 14 09:54 hello
     -rwx--x--x   1    192 Mar 14 09:54 hexdump
     -rwx--x--x   1     45 Mar 14 09:54 true

These are in fact written in assembler and assembled using nasm.
The best I can do with a 'normal' assembler program for
hello world is 448 bytes...

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc [at] mcc.ac.uk
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