What is the output format for symbol size in output of nm utility

Question

I am using the following command

nm -B -l -r --size-sort --print-size binaryName| grep ' B '

Sample output:

00000000166140e0 0000000000aae608 B tax_dtl_buf

Here 00000000166140e0 is the size of the symbol tax_dtl_buf.

Can anyone explain how to interpret this size? I mean how to convert it to kilobyte.

Answer 1

Actually 0000000000aae608 is the size. It's in hexadecimal notation. You can get it in decimal instead, with the flag "-t d". Just divide by 1024 to get kilobytes.