> I have just gotten a general ELF compressor, and self decompressor > going on x86 & alpha. And in the doing of it I found a bug in > the linux ELF code. It doesn't seem to like the idea of multiple > bss segments.. > > Anyway I should have it cleaned up in a day or two so I can share... did you give a try at upx ? it is a very (extremely very ;-) good at compressing executables, it supports elf and various other binary formats, beta version should support (perhaps not perfectly) the linux kernel.... http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx.html -- Vince