Link: Rewriting C program in ASM
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Posted by drobati
- Rewriting C program in ASM»
What’s going on here is really something quite amazing. Let me sum it up. The author makes a C program that consists of one line of code.
/* tiny.c */ int main(void) { return 42; }I enjoyed the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference.
The result is an application size of 3998 bytes.
He then proceeds to write the same thing in ASM; reducing the size over and over until he results with an astonishing 45 bytes! This is my inspiration for becoming a future Systems Engineer.
This link was provided by aldimond over at the xkcd forum’s Assembly How-To Topic
