[ECOS] Default CME555 too big

[Gary Thomas]

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 15:19, Eric Castle wrote:
> RE: Too big
> Interesting.  I ran powerpc-eabi-size on my hello.elf program that was about
> 1 MB, and it printed out the following:
> 
> % powerpc-eabi-size hello
> 	text		data	bss	dec	hex	filename
> 	52040		0	16420	68460	10b6c	hello
> 
> Which does seem to indicate a much smaller executable.  I compiled eCos
> without the "-g" flag, and a huge portion of that 1 MB went away.  So I
> guess I shouldn't be having trouble fiting stuff into external RAM.
> 

This is probably the most common error that folks seem to make.  The 
executable file (ELF format) is full of debug and other structural
information.  The actual code+data which needs to be loaded in your
target hardware will be very much smaller, especially if you compile
with -g (the eCos default)

> RE: gdb
> Ack, sorry, yes, I run the load command as well:
> 
> (gdb) set remotebaud 38400
> (gdb) target remote /dev/ttyS0
> Remote debugging using /dev/ttyS0
> 0x0000bbe0 in ?? ()
> (gdb) load
> Loading section .text, size 0xa29c lma 0x406000
> Loading section .rodata, size 0x1568 lma 0x4102a0
> Loading section .data, size 0x990 lma 0x411808
> Start address 0x406000, load size 49556
> Transfer rate: 30496 bits/sec, 505 bytes/write.
> (gdb) where
> #0  0x0000bbe0 in ?? ()
> (gdb) jump _start
> Continuing at 0x406018.
> Interrupted while waiting for the program.
> Give up (and stop debugging it)? (y or n) y
> (gdb) where
> No stack.
> 
> 
> I tried both "jump <insert likely sounding function>" and "continue", but I
> never get any output after that point (asides from the one random time it
> stopped at a breakpoint).
> 
> Any thoughts?

"continue" should work - you should not need to "jump" to a special
location.

Try single stepping and/or setting intermediate breakpoints to see
how far along your code is getting.

-- 
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates


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