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13 years ago

elf size too large for hello world application

Hi All, i am new to Altera's Nios-II, so as usual started with hello world template i am able to build it but the elf size is comes about 677274 bytes after applying all the optimizations (acc...
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13 years ago

The 677k size is definitely too large, even with stdio printf and without optimization.

I confirm you it should fit in 64k: I checked a similar hello world elf I have here.

Try this shell command: nios2-elf-size <filename>.elf

It will briefly report the size of your memory sections