Break down C++ code size

Question

I\'m looking for a nice Stack Overflow-style answer to the first question in the old blog post C++ Code Size, which I\'ll repeat below:

I’d

Answer 1

If you're looking to find sources of code bloat in your C++ code, I've used 'nm' for that. The following command will list all the symbols in your app with the biggest code and data chunks at the top:

nm --demangle --print-size --size-sort --reverse-sort  | less