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Re: Memory footprint


In gmane.os.ecos.general, you wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:53:42AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> >> what does arm-elf-size say?
>> >
>> > $ arm-elf-size.exe a.out
>> >     text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>> >    41920    1512    8028   51460    c904 a.out
>> >
>> > I suppose that this means the binary will be 51460Kb in size?
>> 
>> That means the binary will require 43432 bytes of ROM
>> (41920+1512) and 9540 bytes of RAM (8028+1512).
>
> I suppose i should read the man page, but couldn't part of data be
> rodata and so will not be copied to RAM at startup?
>
> [Goes and reads the man page]
>
> There is no mention of the rodata. Hum...

I'm pretty sure the "text" number included rodata.

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