From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 3 12:44:49 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA18262 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 12:44:49 -0700 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA18255 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 12:44:47 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id MAA01362 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 12:44:12 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA17440; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 20:42:08 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA15577; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 20:42:07 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id UAA18785; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 20:41:27 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510031941.UAA18785@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 will require a minimum of 8MB for installation. To: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 20:41:26 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199510031828.AA28742@Sysiphos> from "Stefan Esser" at Oct 3, 95 07:28:38 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 719 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)