Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything") (1999)

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A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (or, "Size Is Everything") She studied it carefully for about 15 minutes. Finally, she spoke. "There's something written on here," she said, frowning, "but it's really teensy." [Dave Barry, "The Columnist's Caper"] If you're a programmer who's become fed up with software bloat, then may you find herein the perfect antidote. This document explores methods for squeezing excess bytes out of simple programs. (Of course, the mor

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