Showing the Executable or Object File Statistics

In the 'Utils' menu, you will find the option 'Executable statistics'. This option calls up the 'pedump' utility and shows the results in the output window. Normally, the file displayed will be the executable of the current project. If there is no project defined, this option will prompt you for an executable file name.

To display statistics for an object file, use the 'File' and 'Open' options, then open an object file. Wedit will call pedump for the corresponding file. The other extensions recognized are 'OCX' for special VBASIC executables, and 'LIB' for library files. In the latter case, Wedit will display the symbols exported from the library.

The output of this utility for an object file is:

 

Summary of "COMMON.OBJ": 96549 bytes

Time stamp: Mon Feb 08 00:01:20 1999

 

Section Name       Size

   01   .text      13188   

   02   .data      13676   

   03   .bss       138      

   04   .debug$S   12044   

   05   .debug$T   7465    

 

The code section is traditionally called 'Text', even if its contents are not anything that remotely resembles normal text. The uninitialized data section is also called 'bss' for the same obscure historical reasons. The 'debug$S' and 'debug$T' sections are the debug symbols and debug types information.