On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Wolfgang Denk <w...@denx.de> wrote: > Dear Jon Smirl, > > In message <9e4733910903261350v21bf16c5l5729927048e0d...@mail.gmail.com> you > wrote: >> >> > I'm not sure how you calculate sizes, or how you link your >> > applications. Note that classical standalone application do not link >> > against any libraries, so they are really small: >> >> The *.bin files are ending up at 60-75K. Adding this to the linker > > Yes, but that's mostly empty space, due to the alignment requirments > in the linker script. > >> script fixes it. >> .gcc_except_table : ONLY_IF_RO { KEEP (*(.gcc_except_table)) >> *(.gcc_except_table.*) } >> >> Approximately 60KB of zeros are getting inserted into the *.bin files. > > But this is just a "gap", it e. it is not used space; if you have > bigger program code, or if you change your alignment requirements, you > will see different (much smaller) values.
I'm on powerpc. The *.bin format is not smart enough to encode gaps. It just puts in 60KB of zeros. My ELF files are 73KB. -rwxr-xr-x 1 jonsmirl jonsmirl 73290 2009-03-26 16:49 hello_world Tell me the right way to make these example programs small and I'll submit a patch. -- Jon Smirl jonsm...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot