On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Arun Sharma wrote:
+ > Output of the 'size' command for an object file:
+ >
+ > bash$ size x.o
+ > text data bss dec hex filename
+ > 153 21 0 174 ae x.o
+ > bash$ ls -l x.o
+ > -rw-r--r-- 1 sharadj users 1172 Dec 3 15:01 x.o
+ >
+ > Can anyone tell me, what does this 'size' quotes the figures (text,
+ > data, bss) in? I mean number of words, instructions or what. Man is not
+ > quite explicit.
+
+ Bytes. Do
+
+ $ objdump -j '.data' -s x.o
+
+ to see it for yourself.
+
Ok, here is it. Sorry, i did not mention that in the first mail. Another
point was, if that was in bytes, why so much discrepency in the number of
bytes shown by 'ls -l' and 'size'.
bash$ objdump -j '.data' -s x.o
x.o: file format elf32-i386
Contents of section .data:
bash$
Doesn't meet the expectations eh... :) 'objdump -s x.o' too was not much
helpful.
Sharad.
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