1.5 KiB
Binary Size
ELF files contain metadata like debug information so their size on disk is not a good indication of the amount of Flash the program will use once it's loaded on the target device's memory.
To display the amount of Flash the program will occupy on the target device use the cargo-size
tool, which is part of the cargo-binutils
package.
✅ Use the following command to print the binary's size in system V format.
$ cargo size --bin hello -- -A
Expected output: The breakdown of the program's static memory usage per linker section.
hello :
section size addr
.vector_table 256 0x0
.text 9740 0x100
.rodata 4568 0x270c
.data 8 0x20000000
.bss 2124 0x20000008
.uninit 0 0x20000854
🔎 More details about each linker section:
The first three sections are contiguously located in Flash memory -- Flash memory spans from address 0x0000_0000
to 0x0010_0000
(1 MB).
- The
.vector_table
section contains the vector table, a data structure required by the Cortex-M ISA. - The
.text
section contains the instructions the program will execute. - The
.rodata
section contains constants like strings literals.
The next three sections, .data
, .bss
and .uninit
, are located in RAM -- RAM memory spans the address range 0x2000_0000
- 0x2004_0000
(256 KB). These sections contain statically allocated variables (static
variables).