On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Ted Roby <ted.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Consider the following structs. The first struct uses 1 bit wide unsigned > integers > for two flags set by the user during runtime. The second struct performs the > same > function, but used a regular signed integer instead of an unsigned integer > with > a defined bit width. ... > when I run size on the compiled binary and its stripped version there > seems to be a difference of 32 bits in the text portion and overall size. ... > Why is the non-stripped, one bit wide integer binary larger than > the non-stripped, regular integer binary?
Because the stuff that strip removes is bigger for one than the other, of course. Perhaps you should research exactly _what_ strip is removing. The strip(1) manpage has a reference to the binutils 'info' pages, which describe programs like "readelf" and "objdump" which will tell you more about exactly what are in a binary file, stripped or unstripped. If you compare those, you should be able to see where the size differences lie...though to understand *why* they are different in size you may need to research the details of binary formats like ELF and DWARF and how they represent symbols and types. Philip Guenther
