[U-Boot] Size of external u-boot commands

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Jon Smirl,

In message <9e4733910903261350v21bf16c5l5729927048e0df3b at 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.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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