[fpc-devel] Image size is too big for target even if external debug file is used

[Sven Barth]

Hello together!

I have a arm-wince project (using LCL) where I have a stacktrace and I'd 
like to resolve the symbol information. As I'm not cross debugging I'm 
using an offline (post mortem) process for which I compile my 
application with debug information, but also -Xg to get a seperate 
symbol file which I can use with GDB. Now the problem is that since the 
last time I needed these symbols my application seems to have gotten big 
enough that the debug information triggers the "Executable image size 
too big for arm-wince target" error.

I'm currently using 2.6.0 on i386-win32. If compiled for i386-win32 the 
application's size is 3.7 MB while the debug information size is 42 MB 
(the application size for arm-wince is 4.3 MB).

I've looked a bit inside the compiler and shouldn't it be possible and 
worthwhile to not raise this error if one is cross compiling and 
currently the debug file is generated (the corresponding location is - 
in trunk - ogbase.TExeOutput.SetCurMemPos)? Or maybe define a list of 
targets where it should be allowed when cross compiling.

Regards,
Sven