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Comment on 3998-byte executable reduced to 45 bytesparent

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This is an awesome old classic which is required reading for anybody who wants to understand how ELF object files are loaded and executed.

This is pretty far beyond 'optimization'. The executable is 7 bytes smaller than the minimum legal size for the object file header!

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