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Re:Smallest x86 ELF Hello World by drv on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @11:23AM (#3098925)
The classic resource for this (does the same sort of tricks, taken to an extreme: code overlaid with tables, tables overlaid with other tables, etc.):

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/

(62-byte hello world among other things)

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Re:Smallest x86 ELF Hello World by linhat on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @12:45PM (#3099281)
how about 45 bytes...

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...

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Re:Smallest x86 ELF Hello World by iseyler on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @02:40PM (#3099771)
How about 31 bytes?

http://www.returninfinity.com/baremetal-helloworld.html

Why use ELF or Linux? Flat binaries (and a custom OS) to the rescue! :)

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Re:Smallest x86 ELF Hello World by Someone on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @05:33PM (#3100385)
Why limit yourself to an OS? Design your own instruction set, with a single-bit 'hw' instruction!

As with all games (even Nomic) a game is only a game if there are rules that limit what one can do.

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Re:Smallest x86 ELF Hello World by kpreid on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @08:53AM (#3102715)
The esoteric language HQ9+ does this.
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Re:Smallest x86 ELF Hello World by drv on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @01:27PM (#3099451)
Indeed, except that one doesn't print "Hello world". :)
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Re:Smallest x86 ELF Hello World by linhat on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @05:09PM (#3100315)
Oh, right, you got me, I totally didn't remember that, only the fact, that it was really small and I dug the fact that he put it inside the header.
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Re:Smallest x86 ELF Hello World by breadbox on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @03:04PM (#3099858)
Many years ago I used to have a 58-byte version, but around the time that x86-64 was being developed, Linux started examining (and thus validating) a couple more fields in the ELF header. It's really a shame, because the corner-cutting in the 62-byte version isn't nearly as impressive (in my own opinion).
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