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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

Thnx dsl for reply

this all i know , but thats the "freestanding" kind of application and i am interested in "hosted" (ease of programming)

and according to examples provided in Quartus installations, size of hosted(with main() not alt_main()) hello world application should be around ~69KB means i must had misconfigured something)

other things is does using alt_main() and alt_printf instead of main() and printf() can brings down the footprint to 1/10th