Re: crosstools 0.42 builds arm bootloader executable size > 800 MB

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw at lug-owl dot de>]

On Sat, 2007-07-07 18:40:47 +0800, Alex XT.Yan <xiaotian.yan@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
> 	I compiled vivi(arm bootloader of Samsung) with crosstools 0.42.
> 	After some Makefile and header hacks like "short-load-bytes" and
> 	"no-fpu", the compilation finishs normally, but the size of the output
> 	executable (vivi) is 871MB which should be more or less than 70k~!
> 	'ls -l' and 'du -sh' totally make me confused:
> 	$ ls -l vivi
> 	-rwxrwxr-x   1 yanxt   yanxt  871430121  Jul 6 21:53 vivi
> 	$ du -sh vivi
> 	72K     vivi
> 	the needed time for transferring it convices me that 'ls -l' seems
> 	to tell the truth.

This is a "sparse" file, a file containing a hole. Probably a binutils
bug somewhere...

MfG, JBG

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