On Wed, 25 Jan 2017, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 07:49 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > > What does the data column actually represent? I tried size on the .o file > > generated from: > > > > commit a65f0161f4d69d6738d4821e649448312cd818e2 > > Author: Stephen Rothwell <s...@canb.auug.org.au> > > Date: Tue Jan 17 15:22:28 2017 +1100 > > > > with CONFIG_X86_64=y and I get: > > > > text data bss dec hex filename > > 19726 3480 16 23222 5ab6 drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.o > > > > but when I run objdump -sh drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.o, I find a .data > > segment of size 1008 and a .data.unlikely segment of size 8, which don't > > match up with the results of size. > > Likely you have dynamic_debug enabled and you > need to include these additional sections: > > __jump_table > __verbose > > If user_mode_linux is enabled, add sections: > > .fini_array > .init_array Ah, thanks for the explanations. julia
