How programs get run: ELF binaries [LWN.net]

How programs get run: ELF binaries

Posted Feb 5, 2015 19:24 UTC (Thu) by Tara_Li (guest, #26706)
Parent article: How programs get run: ELF binaries

And then there's the insanity of Stupid Programmer Tricks -

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy....

The creation of a 45 byte ELF executable - admitted, all it does is return 42, but it *does* execute.

How programs get run: ELF binaries

Posted Feb 6, 2015 13:34 UTC (Fri) by jzbiciak (guest, #5246) [Link]

That was a fun read. :-)

How programs get run: ELF binaries

Posted Feb 7, 2015 14:05 UTC (Sat) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link] (1 responses)

There's also The Story of Mel.

LGP-30

Posted Feb 16, 2015 16:04 UTC (Mon) by bokr (guest, #58369) [Link]

The "L" in LGP stood for Librascope, which I think
deserves more credit than "The Story of Mel" gives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGP-30

Likewise, the RPC-4000 was manufactured by Librascope,
which had become a division of General Precision by then, IIRC.
(I started work at Librascope Sept '59, and those were the
computers I cut my teeth on. It's been interesting -- and still is ;-)