Static And Dynamic Memory Usage Of An Executable

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Steven,

> in static, i want to know what is the size of each segment, i.e. heap, data,
> text, 

The "size" program can give you the information about the data and text 
segments.  Alternatively you might prefer to use the "objdump" program.
If the heap is actually a segment, then it should show up in the listing 
provided by objdump, but for a lot of systems the heap is not actually a 
segment, but rather the memory space between two symbols.  In this case 
you will need to use the "objdump" or "nm" programs to obtain the values 
of these symbols and then perform the necessary arithmetic to compute 
the heap size.
> in dynamic, i want to know, what size of heap and stack is enough to run
> the program ( a runtime memory usage graph ).

There is no GNU utility to collect this information for you.  You will 
have to write your own.  You can take advantage of the hook inserted by 
gcc when it is compiling code for profiling.  This hook is a call to a 
special external function which is made at the start of every function 
compiled by gcc.  Usually this function would record the address of the 
function and maybe the time as well, but you could have it record the 
current stack and heap pointers.  See the gcc documentation for more 
information.

Cheers
   Nick