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Re: Regarding Size of ROMRAM applications
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at chez-thomas dot org>
- To: Giri Raja <giri_amf at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>,Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:54:00 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Regarding Size of ROMRAM applications
- References: <20040812154956.83715.qmail@web53801.mail.yahoo.com>
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 09:49, Giri Raja wrote:
> My bad, I didn't use the arm-elf-size. I actually
> clicked on the properties button on the windows
> machine and it showed me the file size as 600K. But
> this is what arm-elf-size gives me:
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 23308 936 23932 48176 bc30
> standalone_serial
>
> I tried both ROM and ROMRAM options. It doesn't seem
> to load from the flash at all. Is there anything that
> I need to modify on the memory map files. I'm using
> EB40A board.
>
Did you start from a fresh (i.e. clean tree) build? It's been
my experience that once I build for one startup type, if I change
the configuration to another, things don't go right. So, I always
start afresh if I'm going to try a different startup mode.
> Thanks.
>
> Giri.
>
> --- Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 05:55:41PM -0700, Giri Raja
> > wrote:
> > > this is a continuation of my earlier mail in the
> > day,
> > > but a slightly different question I have now.
> > > my ROMRAM application is about 600K. Is that
> > really
> > > bif, I'm confused by this number. if it is ROMRAM
> > > startup type, I guess the program will never run
> > as my
> > > RAM is only 256K. does this make any sense or am I
> > > wrong.
> >
> > What is telling you it is 600K? arm-elf-size? Or is
> > that the size of
> > the binary produced by objcopy?
> >
> > Sometimes the binary has big holes in it because
> > objcopy or the linker
> > script is confused.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
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