[ILUG] Quest for the smallest linux binary, a fantastic read

[Brady, Padraig]

It's a nice desciption of what's going on behind the
scenes alright. On a related note and if you don't
care about portability (which you always should but
however) the asmutils package from http://linuxassembly.org
might be of interest. It's an x86 assembly implementation
of common unix utils and it's quite extensive.
Actually I've just noticed that the link you gave is 
one of the projects @ linuxassembly.org.

Also from a different tack http://busybox.lineo.com/
combines many utils into 1 executable. It uses a small libC 
to link against making progs much smaller. Another useful small 
libC is @ http://www.fefe.de/dietlibc/

Padraig.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Caolan McNamara [mailto:caolan at skynet.ie]
> Sent: 01 December 2000 15:13
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> 
> This is the first time I say this tutorial, I have to share it,
> wonderful reading, such determination to go to such lengths
> to reduce bloat must be admired.
> 
> http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html