My Own Private Binary How This Began Several years ago, I spent a serious chunk of time figuring out how to make really teensy ELF executable files. I started down this path because I was annoyed that all of my programs, no matter how short they were, never got smaller than 4k or so. I felt that was excessive, for C, and so I started looking at what ELF files contained, and how much of that actually needed to be there. (And then, after a while, how much of it was supposed to be there but could b...