Creating a binary?

[Oskar Linde]

Hasan Aljudy wrote:
> 
> 
> Peter Thomassen wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Lars Ivar Igesund schrieb am Dienstag, 15. August 2006 22:46:
>>
>>> Ehm, this seems like the pretty printed version of an ELF header 
>>> (which is
>>> stored binary btw), much like the one produced by analytical programs 
>>> like
>>> readelf. All ELF binaries (whether executables, shared libs or object
>>> files) start like this.
>>
>>
>> I used less to view the compiled file, and obviously less passes the file
>> through readelf or sth. Using cat file | less, everything looks binary 
>> :-)
>> My mistake, sorry.
>>
>> Anyway: Why are (striped) binaries at least 150 KB of size, even when 
>> doing
>> nothing (void main() { })?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Peter
> 
> 150 KB is big?

My latest stripped DMD (-O -release) generated binary had a code segment 
of 18 MB. On the other hand, binaries I write for microcontrollers is 
often smaller than 200 bytes (not using D of course). Everything is 
relative. :)

/Oskar