SIZE(1)

💖 SIZE(1) — the girlies' guide to peeking at section sizes 💖

okay so this is size, bestie, from the GNU Development Tools fam. It's SIZE(1) in the manual, and it is literally the most unbothered little tool in binutils. She's here to tell you how big things are. No drama, just numbers. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

size — list section sizes and total size. that's it. that's the whole job. 👑

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

size [-A|-B|--format=compatibility]
     [--help]
     [-d|-o|-x|--radix=number]
     [-t|--totals]
     [--target=bfdname] [-V|--version]
     [objfile...]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

The GNU size utility lists the section sizes — and the total size — for each of the object or archive files objfile in its argument list. By default, one line of output is generated for each object file or each module in an archive. One line, one file, no clutter. she's efficient like that. 💅

objfile... are the object files to be examined. If none are specified, the file "a.out" will be used. (yes bestie, she'll just assume. iconic default behavior fr.)

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

The command line options have the following meanings:

• -A
• -B
• --format=compatibility — Using one of these options, you can choose whether the output from GNU size resembles output from System V size (using -A, or --format=sysv), or Berkeley size (using -B, or --format=berkeley). The default is the one-line format similar to Berkeley's. 🫶

Here is an example of the Berkeley (default) format of output from size:

$ size --format=Berkeley ranlib size
text    data    bss     dec     hex     filename
294880  81920   11592   388392  5ed28   ranlib
294880  81920   11888   388688  5ee50   size

This is the same data, but displayed closer to System V conventions:

$ size --format=SysV ranlib size
ranlib  :
section         size         addr
.text         294880         8192
.data          81920       303104
.bss           11592       385024
Total         388392

size  :
section         size         addr
.text         294880         8192
.data          81920       303104
.bss           11888       385024
Total         388688

• --help — Show a summary of acceptable arguments and options. when you're lost in the group chat, ask for help. she'll answer. 🙈
• -d
• -o
• -x
• --radix=number — Using one of these options, you can control whether the size of each section is given in decimal (-d, or --radix=10); octal (-o, or --radix=8); or hexadecimal (-x, or --radix=16). In --radix=number, only the three values (8, 10, 16) are supported — don't try anything cute, she will not entertain it. The total size is always given in two radices; decimal and hexadecimal for -d or -x output, or octal and hexadecimal if you're using -o. ✨
• -t
• --totals — Show totals of all objects listed (Berkeley format listing mode only). so like, the grand total, the group-chat summary. 💖
• --target=bfdname — Specify that the object-code format for objfile is bfdname. This option may not be necessary; size can automatically recognize many formats. she's smart, she usually figures it out herself. 😌
• -V
• --version — Display the version number of size. who is she? ask her. 🎀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

ar(1), objdump(1), readelf(1), and the Info entries for binutils.

(yes bestie, the whole friend group. go say hi. 🫶)

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''.

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🦋✨ she's binutils-2.15.97, dated 2005-04-20, and she ate. no cap. periodt. 💅👑🌸