21 Aug
2001
21 Aug
'01
10:01 p.m.
Of course you should be able to go even smaller on a
linux system by going to
assembly and using the interrupt version of syscall().
. . .
It's still annoying that 36 bytes of code and data end up in a 404 byte
file. I suppose that's the price of a code loader that supports dynamic
linking. Even if no files are linked, you need to tell it that no files
are linked.
23 bytes in MS-DOS as a .COM file.
ORG 100h
MOV AH, 9
MOV DX, offset msg0
INT 21h
INT 20h
msg0 DB "Hello, World!$"
It's not like it really matters. The 6502 version
on the Apple would still
have taken a full disk block.
True. It doesn't accomplish much to squeeze more
once you're below
the disk space allocation granularity.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com