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Re: Application size on i386


Cristiano Ligieri Pereira wrote:
> 
> I'm having a simple problem with an application running on i386. The
> hello.c or twothreads.c examples are working fine on my PC. I'm booting
> both using floppy disk, or in other words, without using serial connection
> and gdb.
> 
> However when I link these applications with a library I'm trying to use,
> which is 211015 bytes long, and try to execute both applications they
> don't work fine. Basically they reboot the machine.
> 
> The final file sizes are 189792 bytes (hello.bin) and 190464 bytes
> (twothreads.bin). I'm wondering whether those files are too big since I'm
> not doing any call to the library I'm linking those applications to (I'm
> just linking them). If that is the reason, how can I get rid of it?

I believe there was a 64K limit when booting off a floppy in eCos 1.3.1, so
make sure you are using anonymous CVS.

Jifl
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