21 Aug
2001
21 Aug
'01
8:45 p.m.
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.
SPARC/Solaris does a bit better in file size by fitting 46 bytes of code
into a 316 byte file, using the same trick in replacing syscall with its
trap representation.
.section ".text"
.global start
start:
mov 4,%o0
sethi %hi(message),%o2
mov 1,%o1
or %o2,%lo(message),%o2
mov 14,%o3
ta 8
mov 1,%o0
ta 8
message:
.asciz "Hello World!\n"
Eric