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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

NIOS memory usage

Does Nios IDE offer a tool for reporting memory usage of my project? Basically I'd like to display the amount of space used for every memory section. Better if I could have also a complete mapp...
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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

for nios2-elf-gcc you should add:

-Wl,-Map -Wl,"mymap.map"

nios2-elf-g++ is probably the same

BTW, AFAIR Nios2 EDS build tools generate map by default.

What set of tools are you working with. Legacy Nios2 IDE? Better stop right now, for anything above toy size it's painful.