RE: nios-elf-objcopy S-record length

["Swiger, Dan" <Dan dot Swiger at drs-ss dot com>]

Thanks for the tip... I'll check it out!  As it turns out, I can't find the
source for my version of objdump anyway, and am reluctant to ask Altera for
it.  They haven't been very forthcoming with information.

Regards,

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: E. Weddington [mailto:ericw@evcohs.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:53 PM
> To: Dan.Swiger@drs-ss.com
> Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: nios-elf-objcopy S-record length
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >I am currently working with a GNU tool chain obtained from 
> Altera for 
> >the NIOS processor.  Here is the version information obtained from a 
> >'nios-elf-objcopy -V' command:
> ><start>
> >GNU objcopy 2.9-nios-010801-20030722
> >Copyright 1997, 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> >This program is free software; you may redistribute it under 
> the terms of
> >the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely 
> no warranty.
> ><end>
> >
> >I am currently having a problem of objcopy making S-Records 
> with 21 data 
> >bytes in them and am looking for a solution (21 bytes will be *very* 
> >inconvenient when I go to use these to FLASH a 16-bit device).  On a 
> >redirect from someone, I have been browsing the archives of 
> this mailing 
> >list and found an apparent patch for objcopy that would fix 
> my problem.  
> >Here are the references to the messages I found:
> >
> >http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2000-09/msg00321.html
> >http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2000-03/msg00346.html
> >http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2000-03/msg00416.html
> >http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2000-03/msg00427.html
> >
> >Can someone please tell me if/how I can apply this patch to 
> my version 
> >of objcopy so that I may get 16-byte S-Records generated and ease my 
> >life considerably?  Or is there just a switch I need to 
> activate that is 
> >not documented in 'nios-elf-objcopy -h' that I can use already?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Dan
> >
> 
> [Sorry for breaking the threading, but the Thunderbird mail client 
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> 
> Another solution to your problem, without going through the hassle of 
> patching and rebuilding Binutils, is the SRecord utilities on SF:
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/srecord>
> SRecord can manipulate load files of many different formats, 
> including 
> of course SRecord. IIRC, it can do the kind of reformatting that you 
> want. SRecord is licensed under GPL and is known to build and work on 
> GNU/Linux and Windows.
> 
> HTH
> Eric
>