Tinlink

The main purpose of this program is to create 4Kb intros under Linux, where we want, well, a 4Kb executable size ! So, the smaller the header, the bigger the code size !

If you know a way to get a header smaller than 74 bytes, I am intersted in it (maybe with a.out format ?). (I found it ! Go to the links section and follow the second one ! 45 bytes for an executable ! It's crazy !)

Features :

• any binary file of any size can become an elf (with a very small elf header of 74 bytes length),
• you can get any memory reserved for the program you produce (by setting a field in the elf header with the help of tinlink),
• You can have auto-modifying code (because the Linux elf-loader will map the area with read/write/executable rights). For example, you can do a runtime decompressor like pklite under DoS (with this feature, and /dev/fb and /dev/dsp, we can make 4Kb and 64Kb under Linux that will look very nice, don't you think so ?).
• the program is Y2K compliant !
• yes, I know, put a "features" section looks like all those shitty commercial site (who said Microsoft ?), but you know, a little fun does not hurt :)

• The file generated by the program may very well not run at all if the Linux elf-loader does not what I expect it to do (if it does not as in Linux 2.2.1, where I tested it; it works too under Linux 2.0.33).

• Thu Aug 26 1999 : tinlink-1.0.0.tar.gz (4726 bytes)

• add the possibility to link several .o (in elf format for example), because one binary file can be hard to produce and requires to code in pure assembler and use nasm, which might be a pain to some C coder, nope ?

• 624 : my port to Linux of 624, an executable packer. It requires tinlink.
• linux.scene.org
• extreme small elf executable (45 bytes !)
• upx is an exe packer too.

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