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Buried Treasure and Map Files

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Buried Treasure and Map Files

Elecia White
35:18 EOC 2021
Elecia White

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Often overlooked, the map file can provide a wealth of information to the intrepid developer. Map files can help:

  • optimizing for RAM usage and/or code space
  • updating firmware (with or without a bootloader)
  • debugging difficult crash bugs
  • statistical profiling

With so much information, how can you use it? Where do you look? How do you turn the wall of text and numbers into a true map of the code?

Elecia will demonstrate how to use map files. She will focus on an ARM Cortex-M but it will be relevant to other processors.

About Elecia White

Elecia White
Elecia White is the host of the Embedded podcast, author of O'Reilly's Making Embedded Systems, and principal embedded software engineer at Logical Elegance. Elecia has worked on DNA scanners, inertial measurement units for airplanes and race cars, toys for preschoolers, a gunshot location system for catching criminals, self-driving cars for off-roading, smart rocks for undersea rivers, and assorted other medical and consumer devices.

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