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Subject: Re: Tough asm challenge for "REAL MAN PROGRAMMER" Feeb
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:43:22 -0400
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On 10/16/2024 1:52 PM, vallor wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 12:48:35 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
> <veoqp3$2a45g$1@dont-email.me>:
> 
>> This challenge should be right up your alley, given your claims:
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>> _I_ am a REAL MAN PROGRAMMER
>>
>> C programmer extraordinaire
>>
>> Assembly language genius
>>
>> I am a FOSS person.  I can do anything and everything and I can do it
>> all extremely well.
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Challenge:
>> Use nasm to deliver the assembly for the smallest possible working Linux
>> ELF x86 executable that does what this C program does:
>>
>> int main(void) { return 61; }
>>
>> That's it.  Return 61 to the OS.  That's the whole challenge.
>>
>> It goes without saying you can't plagiarize from the Internet or
>> anywhere else (which is where your fraudulent mind went first of
>> course).
>>
>> If you do it right, your solution should be approx 1/50th the size of
>> the smallest tcc (not bloated gcc) executable you could create with the
>> C code.
>>
>> ------------------------------------
>> $ dir tiny.c
>>
>> $ cat tiny.c int main(void) { return 61; }
>>
>> $ tcc -v tcc version 0.9.27 (x86_64 Linux)
>>
>> $ tcc -Wall tiny.c -o t.out
>>
>> $ dir t.out  tiny.c
>>
>> $ ./t.out; echo $?
>> 61
>>
>> $ nm t.out nm: t.out: no symbols
>>
 >> $ wc -c t.out 2736 t.out
 >> ------------------------------------>>
>> I can't hear the crickets yet... but I know they're coming soon.



> $ wc -c return_61
 > 248 return_61
 > > I had to look at some example programs to write the
> asm file, 


Whilst the Cola Committee for Coding Challenges (CCCC) appreciates your 
efforts, we must inform you that your faux submission is rejected for 
admittance of violation of the no-plagiarism directive.



> then poured over the ld(1) documentation
> for linker options.

pored


> I guess I'm not a "REAL MAN PROGRAMMER", can't figure out
> how to get it any smaller.

REAL MAN PROGRAMMERS can get it down to 45 bytes (seriously).


> However, THIS!  IS!  LINUX!  So:
> 
> $ wc -c return_61
> 8 return_61
> $ ./return_61 ; echo $?
> 61

 From 248 to 8?  huh?