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Altera_Forum
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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

I don't ever run the IDE!

The IDE will have left the .o file lurking somewhere (probably polluting the directory with your sources).

It also installs a copy of objdump somewhere.

Everything is actually a lot easier to understand if you don't use an IDE - IDEs try to do everything for you by 'magic' and leave you without any of the knowlege required to find out what has really happened when things go wrong.