Creating a binary?

[Hasan Aljudy]

Oskar Linde wrote:
> 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
> 

I have on my computer some anime movies of sizes 200 and 700 MB and 
more, so 150 KB seems so tiny.