[Tinyos-help] Compilation Error: section vectors overlap

[Eric Decker]

add "verbose" to your make line and see what options are being fed to gcc

eric

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:59 PM, <whulxh at gmail.com> wrote:

> How do I check whether the optimizer is enabled or not? If not, how can I
> turn it on?
> Thanks.
>
> -Xiaohui
>
> On Jun 18, 2009 1:33am, Eric Decker <cire831 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ".text" is a strange (historical and I don't remember why) reference to
> code space.  Rom/Flash etc.
> >
> > You are overflowing the code space which is 48K.  Your previous program
> 48564 and then you added 100 lines of code and bam!
> >
> >
> >
> > Are you compiling with the optimizer on?  If it is then you will have to
> rework what your code is doing.
> >
> >
> > eric
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Xiaohui Liu whulxh at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I came across the following compiling error on telosB:
> > "msp430-ld: region text is full (build/telosb/main.exe section .text)
> >
> >
> > msp430-ld: section .vectors [0000ffe0 -> 0000ffff] overlaps section .text
> [00004000 -> 00010255]
> > msp430-ld: build/telosb/main.exe: section .vectors lma 0xffe0 overlaps
> previous sections
> >
> >
> > make: *** [exe0] Error 1"
> >
> >
> > After some online search, it seems to be due to program oversize (see
> 4.3). Actually, this program is the same with my previous program except the
> addition of around 100 lines of code. My previous program compiles
> successfully and generates a result of
> >
> >
> > "compiled testAppC to build/telosb/main.exe
> >            48564 bytes in ROM
> >             5370 bytes in RAM"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I checked telosB datasheet, which indicates it has RAM of 10 KB. Anybody
> has a idea on what's going wrong here? Is my program really too large? If
> yes, is there any way to shrink the size of compiled file without changing
> the program? I have already tries everything to make it smaller, yet still
> encounter the same error.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > BTW, what does ROM mean here? We can download our compiled program into
> ROM!!??
> >
> >
> > Your attention is greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> > -Xiaohui
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > --
> > Eric B. Decker
> > Senior (over 50 :-) Researcher
> > Autonomous Systems Lab
> > Jack Baskin School of Engineering
> > UCSC
> >
> >
> >
> >




-- 
Eric B. Decker
Senior (over 50 :-) Researcher
Autonomous Systems Lab
Jack Baskin School of Engineering
UCSC
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