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17 years ago

Debug Section (aranges,pubnames,info,...)

The contents of the debug sections produced via a nois2-elf-objdump of the ELF file is shown below. The compilation options surrounding the ELF output is NDEBUG/Release Mode/o3 Optimization. ...
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17 years ago

These sections are useless for executing. It depends how you load the program for Nios: basically for execution you only need ".entry .text .rodata .exceptions .rwdata" i.e. these are the sections that form the memory footprint that Nios IDE copies to the RAM. I you use tools like elf2sof or something similar they are automatically discarded by the tool.

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