nios-elf-objcopy S-record length

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Dan,

> I am currently working with a GNU tool chain obtained from Altera

In theory if Altera supplied this toolchain to you then you should be 
asking them for support...

> GNU objcopy 2.9-nios-010801-20030722

As has been mentioned 2.9 is a very old release of the binutils sources. 
  Altera may well have modified and improved them but I doubt if they 
have included the functionality that you want.  Possibly they have a 
more recent release available for you to purchase.

Normally I would recommend that you obtain and use a more recent version 
of the official binutils sources.  The current 2.15 release would be 
good.  But of course support for the NIOS processor has not (yet) been 
contributed to the binutils project.

There are other companies out there that provide GNU toolchains that 
support the NIOS processor and which use more recent versions of the 
binutils sources, but sadly I cannot mention any of them by, especially 
since I work for one of them.

> 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?

You need the sources to your version of objcopy.  Without that you are 
stuck.  With them you are in business.  The "patch" program will do most 
of the work for you although you may need to edit/fix-up some of the 
source files by hand.

Cheers
   Nick