[Oberon] FPGA - Modules.bin - inner core size

[Peter Matthias]

Am 20.08.2018 um 14:57 schrieb Tomas Kral:
> Hi,
> 
> I have coded a simple procedure storing inner core boot file.
> 
> FOR sec = 2 TO 63 DO
>    Kernel.GetSector(sec*29, buf);
>    Files.WriteBytes(r, buf, Kernel.SectorLength)
> END ;
> 
> Ignoring some trailing NULL sectors, I can guess a file size making the
> original inner core => 37056 bytes.
> 
> Comparing to `Modules.bin' produced by `ORL.Linker', using very early
> and uptodate compiler revisions, I got inner core size 37344, 37568,
> bytes respectively.
> 
> Also binaries differ in some 3452, 20300 bytes, respectively. The newer
> compiler the longer binary with more differencies.
> 
> Is it something expected, or do I get something wrong?
> What can this be accounted for?

OLR.Linker links to a minimal ELF binary. It includes the ELF header. 
Binaries linked with OLR.Linker can only run on Linux Kernel.

Regards,
	Peter