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16 years ago

ELF -> What's the .jdi section?

Hiya Just looking at an .objdump, comparing to a build from a previous version of the NIOS-II build tools, and noticed a new sizeable section called ".jdi" at the end of the sections. What...
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16 years ago

Cryptic JTAG Names (see jtagconfig -n for example) => SOPC Builder component names.

EDIT: I'm not sure why it's in the ELF, but there's a nios2-elf-insert, too, so it's likely that the plan is to use the ELF to "carry" a lot of information beyond just software stuff...