Gnu assembler, generating huge output files

This macro attempts to fill the output file with garbage (usually null bytes) until a 4 GB boundary is reached, adds an int to get past that boundary, and recursively calls itself to keep filling the output with 4 GB chunks of garbage. This will fill your hard drive until it is full, at which point the assembler will likely crash.

.macro f n
.p2align 32
.long 0
.if \n
f "(\n-1)"
.endif
.endm
f 32

Note that infinite recursion cannot be used, as the assembler will catch that special case and stop expanding the macro.

Gnu assembler, generating huge output files

This macro attempts to fill the output file with garbage (usually null bytes) until a 4 GB boundary is reached, adds an int to get past that boundary, and recursively calls itself to keep filling the output with 4 GB chunks of garbage. This will fill your hard drive until it is full, at which point the assembler will likely crash.

.macro f n #Define a macro named f, taking argument n.
.p2align 32 #Fill file with 0x00's until current address is divisible by 2^32
.long 0 #Add a long after the current address, throwing it off alignment.
.if \n #If n > 0, recursively tail-call itself, decrementing n.
f "(\n-1)"
.endif
.endm #End macro definition.
f 32 #Expand macro f, with n = 32 (output size 4GB*32 = 128GB)

Note that infinite recursion cannot be used, as the assembler will catch that special case and stop expanding the macro.

Compilation can be done with as -o crash.out crash.s on most Linux distributions.