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From: dan@kfw.COM (Dan Mick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: size of executables
Message-ID: <1990Dec4.040628.250@kfw.COM>
Date: 4 Dec 90 04:06:28 GMT
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In article <40449@ut-emx.uucp> pefv700@perv.pe.utexas.edu writes:

:Even a program which does nothing is 24576 bytes:
:
:skelly% cat nothing.c
:main() { }
:skelly% cc nothing.c
:skelly% ls -l a.out
:-rwx------  1 pefv700     24576 Nov 30 11:29 a.out
:What am I missing?

File padding to page sizes.  Try fooling with ld switches -n and -N.