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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

If you run 'objdump -h' (probably nios-elf-objdump -h) you'll see that only some of the areas are marked LOAD.

'objdump -p' shows the program headers that are processed when loading the program.

The other ones are just for debuggers (of various sorts), and possibly extra information for loaders (eg the OS the file was built for).