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I am only guessing but I suspect the binary will be tiny. The earlier article you mentioned described how hello world is surprisingly large with libc overheads.

I am only guessing but I suspect the binary will be tiny. The earlier article you mentioned described how hello world is surprisingly large with libc overheads. It then sets out to eliminate those overheads and concentrates on the problems involved in doing that. But it doesn't mention how small the binary gets once those overheads are successfully eliminated, My expectation would be just a handful of bytes.

Garra 16y ago
In my case the binary turned out to be much larger than I would have expected. I was expecting a couple hundred bytes tops, but 8k? osx-box:dev esa$ nasm -f macho hello.asm && ld -e _start -o hello hello.o osx-box:dev esa$ ls -lh hello* -rwxr-xr-x 1 esa staff 8.1K Sep 5 22:43 hello -rw-r--r-- 1 esa staff 721B Sep 5 22:39 hello.asm -rw-r--r-- 1 esa staff 389B Sep 5 22:43 hello.o