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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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16 years ago

Welcome to windows :-)

Cygwin (which is what Altera use) will process a 'windows' path provided you enclose the pathname in single quotes - which stops the shell treating \ as a 'quote next character' request.

Or do what many of us do and use cygwin yourself in order to make it possible to do anything vaguely sane on under windows.

If you write a program, I'd suggest parsing the elf program file and extracting the 'program headers'. These are relatively sane.