On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 20, 2010 00:38:08 Vaibhav Bedia wrote: > > please do not top post > > Sorry about the top posting. > > The size of other sections like the bss section also need to be accounted > > for when doing a size check. > > that really cannot be checked at compile time. it certainly cannot be done > easily or with a few lines of shell code. > > > Insufficient space for bss when doing something like a MMC read which > > requires large buffers causes system hangs for no apparent reason. > > that doesnt make much sense. bss is statically allocated. either it > exists, > or it doesnt. if bss doesnt work, your system/build is fundamentally > screwed. > Just displaying the binary size can be misleading IMHO. If the info printed contains the complete memory requirement (stack+heap+bss) then it can potentially save a lot of time during debugging either way, none of this is related to my patch. > -mike > -- Regards, Vaibhav
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