Jfyi. I added support for creating tiny binaries with r2 a while ago. So it will be easy to create a 200 bytes elf/pe/mach0. For touch, true.. Written in assembly or r_egg (a compiler im writing to create relocatable binaries)
For C... tcc is an option.
On 31/10/2011, at 10:28, Anselm R Garbe <garbeam_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31 October 2011 10:26, Pierre Chapuis <catwell_AT_archlinux.us> wrote:
>> There is probably no need to remind you how software
>> bloat increases with time, but I found this particularly
>> striking:
>>
>> The entire Turbo Pascal 3.02 executable--the compiler and
>> IDE--was 39,731 bytes. Here are some things that Turbo Pascal
>> is smaller than, as of October 30, 2011:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> The touch command under OS X Lion (44,016 bytes).
>>
>>
>> Source: http://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html
>
> Nice example. This demonstrates once again the horrible state todays
> software world reached.
>
> Cheers,
> Anselm
>
Received on Mon Oct 31 2011 - 10:43:32 CET