From: fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: Size of smallest program 6 Dec 1996 08:03:05 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199612061520.CAA16680.cygnus.gnu-win32@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Content-Type: text Original-To: gunther.ebert@ixos-leipzig.de (Gunther Ebert) Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com (gnu-win32) In-Reply-To: <32A6858A.E41@ixos-leipzig.de> from "Gunther Ebert" at Dec 5, 96 09:19:22 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Gunther Ebert wrote: > > The section sizes are > .text 1024 > .bss 24 (!) > .data 512 > .idata 512 > > The size of headers is 1024. > > (I don't understand that, adding all sizes I get 3096, but the > executable file > size is 3072, hello Cygnus, is there something wrong?) The .bss section is uninitialized (or rather zero-initialized) data, hence the executable file just stores its size, not its contents. -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".