On Friday 28 May 2010 21:31:08 Daniel Verkamp wrote:
> > Does anyone remember how to get meaningful values from "size" nowadays?
> >  (It seems to severely over-report the size of .text; I have a vague
> > memory that we tracked this down to the fact that "size" erroneously
> > includes some debugging information within its count.)
> 
> Passing -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm to gcc avoids creating .eh_frame sections,
> which get included in the "text" total (at least according to
> Makefile.housekeeping); alternatively, size -A prints sizes for
> individual sections separately.

Thanks.  I was actually getting valid results from "size", I was just mentally 
reading them in base 16 instead of base 10.  (D'oh.)

Michael
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