size(1)                                                      size(1)


       NAME
             size - print section sizes in bytes of object files

       SYNOPSIS
             size [-F -f -n -o -V -x] files

       DESCRIPTION
             The size command produces segment or section size information
             in bytes for each loaded section in ELF or COFF object files.
             size prints out the size of the text, data, and bss
             (uninitialized data) segments (or sections) and their total.

             size processes ELF and COFF object files entered on the
             command line.  If an archive file is input to the size
             command, the information for each object file in the archive
             is displayed.

             When calculating segment information, the size command prints
             out the total file size of the non-writable segments, the
             total file size of the writable segments, and the total memory
             size of the writable segments minus the total file size of the
             writable segments.

             If it cannot calculate segment information, size calculates
             section information.  When calculating section information, it
             prints out the total size of sections that are allocatable,
             non-writable, and not NOBITS, the total size of the sections
             that are allocatable, writable, and not NOBITS, and the total
             size of the writable sections of type NOBITS.  (NOBITS
             sections do not actually take up space in the file.)

             If size cannot calculate either segment or section
             information, it prints an error message and stops processing
             the file.

             -F      Prints out the size of each loadable segment, the
                     permission flags of the segment, then the total of the
                     loadable segment sizes.  If there is no segment data,
                     size prints an error message and stops processing the
                     file.

             -f      Prints out the size of each allocatable section, the
                     name of the section, and the total of the section
                     sizes.  If there is no section data, size prints out
                     an error message and stops processing the file.



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      size(1)                                                      size(1)


            -n      Prints out non-loadable segment or non-allocatable
                    section sizes.  If segment data exists, size prints
                    out the memory size of each loadable segment or file
                    size of each non-loadable segment, the permission
                    flags, and the total size of the segments.  If there
                    is no segment data, size prints out, for each
                    allocatable and non-allocatable section, the memory
                    size, the section name, and the total size of the
                    sections.  If there is no segment or section data,
                    size prints an error message and stops processing.

            -o      Prints numbers in octal, not decimal.

            -V      Prints the version information for the size command on
                    the standard error output.

            -x      Prints numbers in hexadecimal; not decimal.

      EXAMPLES
            The examples below are typical size output.

            size file              2724 + 88 + 0 =  2812
            size -f file           26(.text) + 5(.init) + 5(.fini)  = 36
            size -F file           2724(r-x) + 88(rwx) + 0(rwx) = 2812

      REFERENCES
            a.out(4), ar(4), as(1), cc(1), ld(1)

      NOTICES
            Since the size of bss sections is not known until link-edit
            time, the size command does not give the true total size of
            pre-linked objects.
















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