In article <40449 at ut-emx.uucp> pefv700 at 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.