Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 10:09:55 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT gmx DOT net>
cc: djgpp <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: RHIDE review
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On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Robert Hoehne wrote:

> >9. Show size of data, and size of code.
> >   I liked that thing in IDE BC 3.1
> >   In project window I can see size of code, and size of data for each
> >   files in project.
> >   IMHO, it will looks nice in RHIDE.
> 
> This might be possible to implement, but there are many
> problems. The old BC 3.1 used only one object format where
> it knows, what the code and what the data is. RHIDE runs at
> first on DJGPP where the COFF object-file format is used
> and it runs also on Linux where ELF is used. For now I can't
> see any easy way to get the information from the object file.

How about ``popen ("size.exe foo.exe", "r")''?  (On Linux, drop the
.exe part, of course.)  This should work on any system, since `size' 
is a standard Unix utility.