On 19 September 2014 00:07, Ian Grant wrote:
>
> Actually, when I look at the output of size I realise I don't know
> what it means:
>
> ian3@jaguar:~/usr/libexec/gcc$ size i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.0/{cc1,f951}
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 14965183 23708 744944 15733835 f0144b
> i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.0/cc1
> 15882830 29264 750832 16662926 fe418e
> i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.9.0/f951
>
> The phrase "dangerous GNU crap" comes to mind :-)
If you say so. The size command is older than GNU, or BSD for that matter.
Your OS probably has a man page for it.