LLVM-SIZE(1)

💖 LLVM-SIZE(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the llvm-size manual page — it lives in the User Commands section of the manual, and it's giving "i measure how big your object files are and i do it flawlessly" energy. pull up a chair, we're doing this together 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

llvm-size</purl> — the manual page for llvm-size 14, aka your girl who dumps object sizes 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

OVERVIEW: LLVM object size dumper 🔥

USAGE:

build-llvm/tools/clang/stage2-bins/bin/llvm-size [options] <input object files>

so like. you hand it some input object files. it tells you how big stuff is. no cap, that's the whole vibe ✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

okay here's the menu, and yes we're going through every single one, because every flag matters and i love them all 💖

• -A — Alias for --format 🦋
• -B — Alias for --format 🦋
• --common — Print common symbols in the ELF file. When you're using Berkeley format, this gets added to bss 👑
• -d — Alias for --radix=10 🔢
• --format=<value> — Specify output format ✨
• --help — Display this help 🙈
• -h — Alias for --help 🙈
• -m — Alias for --format 🦋
• -o — Alias for --radix=8 🔢
• --radix=<value> — Print size in radix 🔢
• --totals — Print totals of all objects — Berkeley format only ⚠️ (yes, only Berkeley, don't come for me)
• -t — Alias for --totals ⭐
• --version — Display the version 🏷️
• -x — Alias for --radix=16 🔢

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🧚 OPTIONS (Mach-O specific) 🧚

special little section for the Mach-O girlies 🌈

• --arch=<value> — architecture(s) from a Mach-O file to dump 💜
• -l — When format is darwin, use long format to include addresses and offsets 📍

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Pass @FILE as argument to read options from FILE. yes, literally, at-sign then the file name. iconic behaviour fr fr 💅

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 🍓

this was llvm-size 14, dated May 2025 — mwah, stan, periodt 👑💖✨