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7 years ago.
Are MBED bin files full of rubbish?
Hi,
Looking at the end of a simple blinky app for the lpc1114 i found this:
_ptr == (T *)&_data /home/jenkins/mbed_jenkins/workspace/bm_wrap/1661/mbed-os/BUILD/mbed/platform/SingletonPtr.h extras/mbed_e7ca05fa8600/TARGET_LPC1114/TARGET_NXP/TARGET_LPC11XX_11CXX/gpio_object.h /home/jenkins/mbed_jenkins/workspace/bm_wrap/1661/mbed-os/targets/TARGET_NXP/TARGET_LPC11XX_11CXX/gpio_api.c /home/jenkins/mbed_jenkins/workspace/bm_wrap/1661/mbed-os/BUILD/mbed/TARGET_LPC1114/TARGET_NXP/TARGET_LPC11XX_11CXX/gpio_object.h /home/jenkins/mbed_jenkins/workspace/bm_wrap/1661/mbed-os/targets/TARGET_NXP/TARGET_LPC11XX_11CXX/pinmap.c
This carries on for a further 5-6 lines. It makes me wonder if someone is running the MBED compiler from home??? Comments welcome!
Dave.
2 Answers
7 years ago.
MBED online compiler creates debug builds. So there will be info about source files to give you the error location via serial port / debugger if firmware crashes.
7 years ago.
If you need to get rid of rubbish, run mbed compile --profile=release (not possible in the online compiler). This will get rid of all the debug information.
To see what's in the bin file, you can use the linker visualizer.
Jenkins is a software package for automating builds and reporting errors. /home/jenkins will be the working directory of a user account on the build server that was created for the jenkins software to use.
posted by Andy A 11 Dec 2017