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Dangerous Assembly
Personal blog · tetzank.github.io/postsprogrammingsecurity
Dangerous Assembly is a personal blog at tetzank.github.io about programming and security. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dangerous Assembly's posts on reducing executable size, such as removing unused code, as a reference for binary-size techniques in C and C++.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /posts/removing-unused-code/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-27
What Hacker News says?
https://tetzank.github.io/posts/removing-unused-code/
Comment linking /posts/removing-unused-code/
on “Single_file_libs: List of single-file C/C++ libraries”Submitted Static Machine Code Analysis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWorking with / compiling from source code (portable/non-portable): cosmopolitan libc[0] Each language kinda has own tricks,java[3], rust[4] From [1] : " A comparison of dietlibc, uclibc, musl, and glibc, by the author of musl: http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html " How to make smaller C and C++ binaries[7] Removing unused code[5] / Exploiting function similarity for code size reduction[6] ------- [0] : a) https…
Comment linking /posts/removing-unused-code/
on “Ask HN: What are some non-standard ways to reduce the size of executable files?”Submitted Coverage-Based Fuzzing with Libfuzzer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Identical Code Folding as a story · 1 points
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