There is also an sstrip tool [1], written by the same Brian Raiter already mentioned here. It strips a bit more eagerly: $ gcc tiny.c -O3 -o tiny; wc -c tiny

There is also an sstrip tool [1], written by the same Brian Raiter already mentioned here. It strips a bit more eagerly: $ gcc tiny.c -O3 -o tiny; wc -c tiny 8456 tiny $ strip tiny; wc -c tiny 6224 tiny $ sstrip tiny; wc -c tiny 4140 tiny [1] http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/elfkickers.html http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/elfkickers.html