Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 20:41:26 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. Message-ID: <199510031941.UAA18785@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199510031828.AA28742@Sysiphos> from "Stefan Esser" at Oct 3, 95 07:28:38 pm
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As Stefan Esser wrote: > > } Before you start comparing these numbers, the "bss" is not correct as far > } as I remember, is it ? > > What makes you think so ? That's been a general problem, as far as i remember. The .o files do not allocate the proper amount of .bss storage, this is done at link time: j@uriah 608% cat > foo.c int bar[2048]; ^D j@uriah 609% cc -c foo.c j@uriah 610% ld foo.o j@uriah 611% size foo.o a.out text data bss dec hex 0 0 0 0 0 foo.o 4096 0 8192 12288 3000 a.out -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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