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14 years ago

Size of RAM needed to store NiosII code

Hi, I'm currently working on porting a project from an Altera Dev Board (Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit, Cyclone III Edition) to a self-designed PCB board. Currently, I have some code fo...
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14 years ago

The windows 'explorer' gives you the file size - this includes a lot of stuff that isn't loaded (symbol tables, debug info, etc).

'nios2-elf-size -A test_sram.elf' will give you the sizes of all the sections, butthe output from 'objdump -p' (program sections - for loader) and 'objdump -h' (elf sections) is normally more use.

I suspect the heap size you have is the configured size, not the size used.