alt Hacker NewsHow small is a hello world in C on Linux? The last time I checked a few years ago, it was either 9Mb or 13Mb (memory is fuzzy on this one but one of them was right).
Edit: wow I’m way off… it must have been the 90s when I checked this lol
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fluffybucktsnek • last Monday at 7:54 PM
Yeah, testing here with GCC 13.3.0 led to 16K. Perhaps, when you made your test, the compiler was statically linking some libs, which would explain the massive increase in size.
C statically linked hello world binaries have never been 9MB or 13MB, they definitely weren't in the 90s. Also these are rust binaries.
https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/sizegame