FPGA On-Chip Memory Initialization with Preloader

Some updates:

For some background, for my demo I am simply trying to run the Altera-SoCFPGA-HardwareLib-16550-CV-ARMCC example design on the HPS which ships with Quartus (C:\intelFPGA\20.1\embedded\examples\software). Before building the project, I had to change the toolchain to Arm Compiler 5 (this is the toolchain the project was designed for and it wouldn't build properly otherwise).

Opening the generated application.axf.objdump file I noticed that Section #5: ARM_LIB_STACKHEAP was very large (1072623568 bytes). To see if this section may have been the cause of the errors, I tried to remove this section while generating the binary file by running the following commands in the Embedded Command Shell:
$ arm-altera-eabi-objcopy -O binary -R ARM_LIB_STACKHEAP application.axf application.bin

$ mkimage -A arm -O u-boot -T standalone -C none -a 0x00100040 -e 0x00100040 -n “baremetal image” -d application.bin application-mkimage.bin

$ arm-altera-eabi-objcopy -I binary -O ihex --adjust-vma -0xc0000000 application-mkimage.bin application.hex

However, after recompiling the project in Quartus with the new binary file the same error appeared.

I am not sure whether or not these most recent errors are related to similar issues compiling with the preloader image as mentioned above.

As an FYI, the final project will eventually be open source so I can most likely provide additional information/files if it would be useful.