This page is a complete guide to everything I've written about creating teensy ELF executable for Linux.
Take a look at your /bin directory: how big is the smallest ELF executable in there? Try writing the smallest hello-world program you can. Can you get it under, say, 1K? This is precisely what I set out to do one day, and I ended up with a minor obsession over creating the smallest possible executables.
How does one go about making a Linux ELF executable small? You're about to find out.
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