Re: ARM tool chain & other questions...

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On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Paul Doherty wrote:

> Hi guys & gals,
>
> i've a couple\three questions on the arm gcc cross-compilier. i've built the
> gcc tool chain for arm-thumb-elf and it works well. I've been messing around
> with GDB and the simulator, writing simple programs to get the hang of it. I
> lack a great deal of knowledge in this field as i come from a background of
> 8052, 6800, HC11 & 68002 assemble programming (mostly 8052).
>
> My first question is, how do i relocate code in the memory map. I've tried
> changing the ld linker script from 0x8000 to say 0x10000 or 0x80000 but this
> seem to have no effect. Am i on the right track at all??? I do remember
> reading last week on some man/info page that the 0x8000 had something to do
> with the demon debugger. I can't find this info now...

I suppose that if you are using arm-elf toolchain it should not be a
problem.

>
> I'm using this mini project as a tutoiral in ARM(GCC) development to get me
> up to speed on the basics.
> Sceond question. I have a bare board. I don't need any RTOS at the moment, i
> with try and get ecos working later but not yet. Is elf the correct file
> format to start with?

Elf is OK, use arm-elf-objcopy to produce loadable format.

>
> I plan to start writing a downloader now soon that will take data (A
> program) of the ARM serial port and save it to memory. By any chance is
> there an elf to intel hex translator available on the net? I know it's bad
> but old habbits die hard... ;-D   Is the elf file format complicated?? Would
> it be as easy to download straight from it???

arm-elf-objcopy supports quite a few useful output formats.

>
> The final question... How stable is the GCC cross compiler when it's been
> run on a windows machine under cygwin? Has many people developed major
> projects on it. How did you find it. It looks stable to me but the longest C
> program i wrote so far using this configuration was 40 lines and it was all
> completed in one evening. What's the story if it's been used for a couple of
> weeks or a month or two??

Use linux, you will save a lot of blood and tears vs windows/cygwin.


>
> Thanks in advance for all the help....
>
> Paul

Thanks,

Aleksey

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