1200 byte noop

[eigood]

#include <unistd.h>

int _start(void) {
        _exit(42);
}

11:24:50 -0500 adam@tooz:/tmp$ gcc -nostartfiles -static -Wall -s -O3 -o noop noop.c && ls -l noop && ./noop; echo $?
-rwxrwxr-x 1 adam adam 1200 Jul  5 11:24 noop
42

I was aware of http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html when I found your repo, in the compose extends thread, so a bit of googling for a non-assembly based way, that seems easy to understand.

A standard static compile, with strip, was 750k or so on my machine.

The license on this example is public domain. I don't care what anyone does with it, there is nothing of value in any of this.

[JanNash]

This is awesome and I will try to get that in asap, thanks, @eigood