memory footprint

[Joel Sherrill]

Wulf Hofbauer wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:13:04AM -0800, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> > by disabling the console and termios, I was able to get it down to
> >
> >   32992    2656    7592   43240    a8e8 o-optimize/minimum.rxe
> 
> That looks better, although I'm not really happy about those
> numbers either.
> 
> > > Part of the problem is, on m68k, that there's a block of 9 kb of
> > > uninitialized data space embedded in the code section.
> > where?
> 
> c/src/lib/libbsp/m68k/shared/start.S starts with a jump to an
> entry point, immediately after that it reserves a lot of space
> for interrupt stacks, exception vector tables, etc. I'm still
> wondering what the real reason for that is. I don't think anyone
> would do things this way without a very good reason.

You're on a mvme147, right?  If I recall everything correctly, 
that avoids conflicting with memory space used by Mbug.

> - Wulf

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