Total size mismatches

[nikolaydubina]

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[vincentbernat]

Hey!

I have a 44MB executable. go-binsize-treemap reports 12MB. I have 5.4MB of embedded files. If I link with -s -w, I get a total of 33MB instead. I don't know if the difference is already included into the output of go tool nm -size. If I suppose it is not, I still have 15 MB unaccounted for. If I zero-out one of the embedded file, its size is subtracted from the total, so it does not seem there is a large overhead for embedded files. I am using go 1.18. Any hint where the bytes could be hidden?

[nikolaydubina]

Hi, I tried to find missing bytes before too. Even by accounting everything from go tool nm -size there is missing bytes. Some discrepancies can be large.

My best best is to dig into go tool nm -size or Go internals.

Which project you are using? I may try to repro and we can collect where discrepancies coming from together with other reports.

[vincentbernat]

I am using https://github.com/vincentbernat/akvorado. go tool nm -size doesn't display anything for embedded files. I have spent some time looking left and right without any success.