[U-Boot-Users] Size and format of standalone apps
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Tue Sep 7 09:23:57 CEST 2004
Dear Robin,
in message <413D346D.2030606 at tait.co.nz> you wrote:
>
> For example, on powerpc, the hello_world binary is 90% nulls with just a
> few words on the end.
Yes, ther eis a pretty huge gap between the .sdata2 and .data segments:
-> objdump -h hello_world
hello_world: file format elf32-big
Sections:
Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn
0 .text 00000228 00040000 00040000 00010000 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
1 .rodata 00000098 00040228 00040228 00010228 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
2 .sdata2 00000000 000402c0 000402c0 000102c0 2**2
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
3 .data 00000000 000502c0 000502c0 000102c0 2**0
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
4 .got2 00000028 000502c0 000502c0 000102c0 2**0
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
5 .sdata 00000000 000502e8 000502e8 000102e8 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
6 .sbss 00000000 000502e8 000502e8 000102e8 2**0
CONTENTS
7 .bss 00000000 000502e8 000502e8 000102e8 2**0
ALLOC
8 .comment 0000007a 00000000 00000000 000102e8 2**0
CONTENTS, READONLY
...
> How can I truncate this to make the code more space efficient or change
> the link order to not have this vast embedded block of wasted space?
Use a linker script which optimizes the size of the segments.
> It appears to be associated with libgcc so perhaps there is a way of
No, this has nothing to do with libgcc. It's more a question of how
you link the image.
> forcing these functions to be inlined? Is there a way of avoiding them
> altogether or perhaps since U-Boot has already included them, maybe more
> vectors to gain access to them?
This is not the problem.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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