>> ATM, I am experiencing objects being generated by GCC to increase in >> size and forcing us to gradually abandon targets with tight memory >> requirements. At least one cause of this seems to be GCC abandoning COFF >> in favor of ELF, which seems to imply larger memory requirements. > >I don't see at all why this should increase target memory requirements, >can you eludicate?
Perhaps it is that the ELF executables are larger in total size(not code size) than the corresponding COFF executables, and if stored on the target, then the footprint increases, causing "larger memory requirements" of flash, not DRAM. -- Peter Barada [EMAIL PROTECTED]
