Zero length text segments

[Dave Hammond]

A mild curiosity:

I recently acquired a copy of the public domain program `vsh'.  After
compiling it on a 286 machine, I ran `size' on the executable, which reported:

0 + 45178 + 4006 = 49184 = 0xc020

The cc command args include `-n' which creates a pure-text executable.
Assuming that this option produced the 0 text-segment size, it appears to make
no significant difference in execution speed or core size.  What, if any,
are the benefits of a 0 length text-segment program?

Dave Hammond
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