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RE: File size increases significantly after objcopy
- From: "C Jaiprakash, Noida" <cjaiprakash at hcltech dot com>
- To: "'binutils at sources dot redhat dot com'" <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 18:51:24 +0530
- Subject: RE: File size increases significantly after objcopy
I am using binutils version 2.15.91
Thanks and best regards,
C Jaiprakash
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: C Jaiprakash, Noida
> Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 6:50 PM
> To: binutils@sources.redhat.com
> Cc: C Jaiprakash, Noida
> Subject: File size increases significantly after objcopy
>
> Hi,
> I am building colilo for a coldfire (v4e) target. I am
> facing a strange problem. If i build colilo with -O0 option
> and convert the ELF binary to bnary, srec format following
> are the resulting file sizes
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 cjaiprakash coldfire 93K Nov 25 18:58 colilo.bin
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 cjaiprakash coldfire 123K Nov 25 18:58 colilo.elf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cjaiprakash coldfire 279K Nov 25 18:58 colilo.s19
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cjaiprakash coldfire 279K Nov 25 18:58 colilo.srec
>
> But when i build the colilo with -O2 option file size
> increase significantly, following are the sizes
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 cjaiprakash coldfire 17M Nov 25 19:01 colilo.bin
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 cjaiprakash coldfire 107K Nov 25 19:01 colilo.elf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cjaiprakash coldfire 49M Nov 25 19:01 colilo.s19
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cjaiprakash coldfire 49M Nov 25 19:01 colilo.srec
>
> ELF binary size is ok but why the file sizes for bin, srec
> are so huge?
>
> Thanks and best regards,
> C Jaiprakash
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> Contributing to the World by creating indispensable value !
>
> System Software CoE @ HCLT-Noida
> http://www.hcltechnologies.com
> Ph. : +91-120-2510701/702 Ext : 3170
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