pc686 bsp for executables bigger than 1.44Mbytes

[Angelo Fraietta]

John Pickwick wrote:

> Hi to all,
> 
> as a prototyping platform I use a simple celeron pc with the pc686 bsp (with 
> rtems4.8.0) but my executable is getting bigger and bigger :=( The pc is 
> under windows and I used to boot from a floppy disk using the grub package 
> but I can no longer do it since my executable reached the 1.44MB limit ... 
> what are the other simple solutions to run my application (I don't have any 
> filesystem installed in my application) ?

I had a similar problem when I developped my Smart Controller. I found 
that the Standard STL had exception handling, which bloated my exe size. 
I made a subset of what I required, removed any exception handling (that 
I was aware of) and it reduce my exe size substantially.

Mind you, that was seven years ago and things may be different with the 
compilers and libraries now.

Let us know if it works for you.


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