[coldfire-gnu-discuss] Issues with ColdFire toolchain

[Nathan Sidwell]

Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> 
>> As it turns out, the size of the image  seems  to  be  important.  By
>> disabling  features we created configuration that resulted in smaller
>> images, and these work fine. The critical size seems to be 1 MB -  if
>> the images are smaller, they work; if they are bigger, they cannot be
>> loaded.
> 
> 
> Ah, that makes sense.  I'm not sure why you did not get a link error, as 
> the linker script constrains the memory size to 1MB.  We'll investigate.

ah ha. I was wrong, the linker script allows 16MB images.  But also uses the top 
8 bits for the library-id.  That is inconsistent.

nathan
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