Am 05.02.2013 17:31, schrieb Sergei Gorelkin:
05.02.2013 19:32, Sven Barth пишет:
Hello together!
I have a arm-wince project (using LCL) where I have a stacktrace and
I'd like to resolve the symbol
information. As I'm not cross debugging I'm using an offline (post
mortem) process for which I
compile my application with debug information, but also -Xg to get a
seperate symbol file which I
can use with GDB. Now the problem is that since the last time I
needed these symbols my application
seems to have gotten big enough that the debug information triggers
the "Executable image size too
big for arm-wince target" error.
I'm currently using 2.6.0 on i386-win32. If compiled for i386-win32
the application's size is 3.7 MB
while the debug information size is 42 MB (the application size for
arm-wince is 4.3 MB).
I've looked a bit inside the compiler and shouldn't it be possible
and worthwhile to not raise this
error if one is cross compiling and currently the debug file is
generated (the corresponding
location is - in trunk - ogbase.TExeOutput.SetCurMemPos)? Or maybe
define a list of targets where it
should be allowed when cross compiling.
An interesting issue. On ELF targets all debug sections are placed at
zero address, so such error can arise only if size of a single section
exceeds limit, but on COFF targets like arm-wince debug sections
consume address space (although they are not loaded).
Maybe we should simply ignore the address limit for debug sections, or
maybe only when generating external debug file.
That's the idea. You are currently more experienced regarding the output
generator, so if you can find the time to change this...
I've solved the problem for now by not compiling the LCL with debug
information, but even then my debug information is already ~25 MB and
the size limit on WinCE is around 33 MB. (and the error I experienced
was in FPC's RTL and was fixed by me in r23574 :) )
Regards,
Sven
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