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Free words in section

Dave Korn dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com
Wed Oct 20 14:26:00 GMT 2010 
On 20/10/2010 11:32, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
> 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.
> 

  Do you mean the amount of padding added by LD?  That can be read from the
map file output; look for the "*fill*" entries.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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