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Re: how to get "the big picture" with nm, objdump, size for object size?


>> ?I am trying to decrease the object size for my C++ code with nm, size
>> and objdump. The 'size' command gives me
>> $ size my_obj.o
>> ? ?text ? ?data ? ? bss ? ? dec ? ? hex filename
>> ?143576 ? ? ?72 ? ? 208 ?143856 ? 231f0 my_obj.o
>> just 143kb which is much less than real file size (which is 1,6Mb).
>>
>> ?So, how can I get what sections occupy so many space? I am sure they
>> are debugging symbols and something else; so, how can I sum up numbers
>> from output of the tools to get something like 1,6Mb? Googling didn't help.
>
> use `readelf -S` and `readelf -s` to view section & symbol info

There's also 'size -A'.

-cary


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