From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: Size of smallest program
6 Dec 1996 08:03:05 -0800
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Gunther Ebert wrote:
> 
> The section sizes are
> .text   1024
> .bss      24 (!)
> .data    512
> .idata   512
> 
> The size of headers is 1024.
> 
> (I don't understand that, adding all sizes I get 3096, but the
> executable file
> size is 3072, hello Cygnus, is there something wrong?)

The .bss section is uninitialized (or rather zero-initialized) data,
hence the executable file just stores its size, not its contents.

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