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Re: nios-elf-objcopy S-record length
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- To: "Swiger, Dan" <Dan dot Swiger at drs-ss dot com>
- Cc: "'binutils at sourceware dot org'" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:16:36 +0000
- Subject: Re: nios-elf-objcopy S-record length
- References: <2C52593826C4D611A69F00508B60303F0281CF31@aego_exch1.sigp.net>
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