On 1/16/06, Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: <!-- snip --> > > can someone explain: > a. what command to run to get those numbers size - "man size" (see also "man objdump" the -x and -h switches). > b. what the numbers mean > c. how the segments differ wrt sharability, readonlyness, etc .text (executable code) is sharable .data is (as far as I remember) the sum of the uninitialized and initialized variable segments. .bss (block started by symbol) contains uninitialized global variables, they will be initialized to zero upon load - as far as I remember this is not sharable. "dec" and "hex" is the filesize in decimal and hexadecimal. > d. how they relate to numbers from 'nm -S nada.o nada.ko', > readelf -S nada.o, objdump -h nada.o > readelf -S & objdum -h list the same (and more data) as "size" - size just list a few sections (the interresting ones in most cases). -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
