[ECOS] creating smallest binaries

[Gary Thomas]

On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 20:44, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
> > From: George Pantazopoulos
> > 
> >    Do you have any tips for creating the smallest binaries possible? I
> > know of the gcc options "-Os" "-ffunction-sections" and
> > "-fdata-sections". Are there any others that work well?
> > 
> >    Any other general tips for conserving RAM? I'm using the EB40A ARM7
> > eval board with 256KB of RAM.
> 
> At the risk of stating the obvious, make sure you're using Thumb mode.

Even more savings can be had by tuning your eCos configuration.  eCos
is *configurable*, remember?  There are a lot of things that can be
adjusted - the default configurations, while slim, have lots of room
to be trimmed, yielding a truly svelte result.

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


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