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15 years ago

problem with code size"need help"

hello, I have a problem with code size.. I am running an application to view a 24bit color picture on a 480x272 touch screen, I used a 8 Mbyte SDRAM on DE1 board cycloneII and a scatter gather D...
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15 years ago

That is the version of the Altera tools, not gcc :-)

You might have gcc3 or gcc4.

Both the gcc3 and gcc4 I've built from the sources on Altera's ftp site correctly put the array into .data.

I don't think any of my patches affect it (one puts MORE stuff into .sdata).

It is worth running objdump -h to see how big .data and .sdata are.