Tiny ELF Files: Revisited in 2021

• tiny_x64

  1 0 10.0 Assembly

  An ELF executable in 112 bytes

Funnily enough, I tried the same thing a while back [0], and got basically the same minimum size (112 bytes in my case). Though it's not nearly as impressive as the article, since all mine did was _exit(42).

I suppose I have no choice but to spend a few hours to try and shave off a couple more bytes now.

[0]: https://github.com/colatkinson/tiny_x64

• demostuff

  1 10 10.0 C

  Linux demoscene stuff

I had a go at this myself a few years ago [0]. But I wanted a dynamically linked ELF instead of a static one so that I could load SDL, OpenGL, etc. That requires extras like a DYNAMIC section which takes up quite a bit more space.

I ended up at 728 bytes without any self-extracting techniques. It played a nice animation though.

I have not tested it recently, I expect it won't run any more as it used "bad things", like relying on ecx having a specific value when the program started, but the ideas should still be relevant.

[0]: https://github.com/baines/demostuff

• InfluxDB

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