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21 years ago

NiosII & objcopy ? problem

Hi there, i do a migration to NiosII , for now nothing problem except one., why when i use objcopy to transform and .out file to Binary the bin files have an increasead size (it is filled wit...
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21 years ago

I have run into the same problem. When I take the flash.flash file and run it thru my srec to flash utility the resulting binary is about half the size. When I run objdump on the .elf, stripping all symbols and debug, it is still much larger than the flash.flash file.

What command parameters does the IDE use to produce the .flash file from the .elf, and where does the build message output go anyway?

thanks