How can I build very small executables?

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From: Alexander Brown
Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 21:04

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I am running Linux at home and SunOS at school.  In both operating systems,
some of the system utilities in /usr/bin such as echo, cat, etc. are very
small executable files.  When I compile them myself I can't seem to 
build a program smaller than 9600 bytes (using gcc -N -s).  Even the 
program     main() {}  ends up this big.

How were those small programs built?

Alex.   (abrown@math.ucla.edu)

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