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Free words in section

Paulo J. Matos pocmatos@gmail.com
Wed Oct 20 10:32:00 GMT 2010 
Paul Koning <paul_koning@dell.com> writes:

> What does "free" mean?  And why is it interesting?  It's hard to see what you're after.
>

Sorry if I mis-explained myself.
We are writing sections of a certain constant size, which might not be
completely full, meaning parts of the sections don't have useful words
but zero. What I am trying to calculate is the number of words which are
zero and meaningless.

This is useful for example to know, how much more space we still have in
a data / constant / program section.

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PMatos
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