How to find size of static allocations from binary?

Question

Is it possible to determine the total amount of memory dedicated to static and global variables from the binary? I'm looking for a Linux utility that reads an elf file and figures out how much memory is pre-allocated for variables.

Answer 1

The size utility will report that, under "data".

> size ./my_program

Answer 2

Yes. Use...

objdump -h progfile

which will list the "headers". Find the .data header and check the size column.