Out of memory on a ATtiny841

[pascalbythree]

Out of memory on a ATtiny841 when using the www.freepascal.org compiler!

Does anybody know a exe compressor to be used for HEX files for AVR ?

Or i am i stuck to compiler parameters ?

Greets, PascalByThree, Wouter van Wegen

[Laksen]

Out of RAM or FLASH?

If RAM, reduce the amount of global variables you need
If FLASH, rewrite your code to make your generated code smaller. You might be using a lot of RTL functions that might be large (WriteLn, memory manager, etc)

You can investigate sizes of stuff with

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avr-embedded-nm -Sn MyProgram.elf

[TRon]

Does anybody know a exe compressor to be used for HEX files for AVR ?

fwiw: solution likes that is actually making things worse because when compressed you require roughly twice the the amount of memory. First to load the compressed file into memory and the second time for the decompressed version (and the decompression code itself requires memory as well).

[pascalbythree]

8K Bytes flash memory,

To load a UART and a I2C stack. With a small program loop. And some procedures to store a integer in the EEPROM.

Do you think it will be sufficiant ? Maybe it is possible to tell like that ?

[ccrause]

Does anybody know a exe compressor to be used for HEX files for AVR ?

fwiw: solution likes that is actually making things worse because when compressed you require roughly twice the the amount of memory. First to load the compressed file into memory and the second time for the decompressed version (and the decompression code itself requires memory as well).

It is even worse on Harvard architecture, instructions are only loaded from flash, so the decompressor needs to decompress to flash.  The decompressor also needs to run from flash, so it requires quote a bit of juggling of already limited flash memory.  And the flash space is already too small for the original code.  So while this is an interesting academic challenge, it would be a lot easier to just buy a controller with more flash.

[ccrause]

8K Bytes flash memory,

To load a UART and a I2C stack. With a small program loop. And some procedures to store a integer in the EEPROM.

Do you think it will be sufficiant ? Maybe it is possible to tell like that ?

This functionality typically should fit into less than 4 kB, but it really depends on the specific code. As Laksen mentioned, do you use RTL functions to format strings, or convert text to integer or something? Or use (short)string types?  Did you enable any debug features such as range, overflow or stack checking?

Are you using the latest development (main) compiler? There are a couple of new optimizations in main that is not in the latest release version (3.2.2) - although the compiler optimizer will typically only reduce size by about 10 - 20%.

[Thaddy]

I suspect you are simply stuck, because you tried to build with sysutils, which is a no no. Same as my answer to your other question.