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The classic resource for this (does the same sort of tricks, taken to an extreme: code overlaid with tables, tables overlaid with other tables, etc.): http://w

by drv 15y ago

The classic resource for this (does the same sort of tricks, taken to an extreme: code overlaid with tables, tables overlaid with other tables, etc.): http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/ http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/ (62-byte hello world among other things)

linhat 15y ago
how about 45 bytes... http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...
- drv 15y ago
  Indeed, except that one doesn't print "Hello world". :)
  - linhat 15y ago
    Oh, right, you got me, I totally didn't remember that, only the fact, that it was really small and I dug the fact that he put it inside the header.
- iseyler 15y ago
  How about 31 bytes? http://www.returninfinity.com/baremetal-helloworld.html http://www.returninfinity.com/baremetal-helloworld.html Why use ELF or Linux? Flat binaries (and a custom OS) to the rescue! :)
  - Someone 15y ago
    Why limit yourself to an OS? Design your own instruction set, with a single-bit 'hw' instruction! As with all games (even Nomic) a game is only a game if there are rules that limit what one can do.
    - kpreid 15y ago
      The esoteric language HQ9+ does this.
breadbox 15y ago
Many years ago I used to have a 58-byte version, but around the time that x86-64 was being developed, Linux started examining (and thus validating) a couple more fields in the ELF header. It's really a shame, because the corner-cutting in the 62-byte version isn't nearly as impressive (in my own opinion).