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Hi.. Could you any one tell me how to find the run time binary utilization of memory in RAM with out run the binary..?? Will the size of binary while ...
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  1. 12-05-2007 #1
    Ganesh Kumar R
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    Question find run time binary size (in RAM)

    Hi..

    Could you any one tell me how to find the run time binary utilization of memory in RAM with out run the binary..??

    Will the size of binary while executing and compiled binary size are same.?

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  2. 12-08-2007 #2
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    No. The executable file may contain instructions to allocate, say, a 1GB static buffer, but that'll only occupy a few bytes in the file. Also, the code may dynamically allocate lots of memory, especially if it has recursive components.
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