Re: Contributing the Unifile utility for merging Mot or Hex files.

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Prafulla,

> We have released a utility, named as Unifile, that merges two or more
> Motorola format files (commonly known as Mot file or S-Record file) 
> or Intel format files (commonly known as Hex file) to generate a 
> single Motorola format file (S-Record / Mot file) or Intel format file.

> We would like to contribute this utility (along with sources) as a 
> part of the GNU binary utilities. We propose the following two 
> options for contributing the Unifile utility to FSF:
>
> 1. Add this utility to GNU binary utilities as a standalone utility.
> User will need to invoke it separately and merge the input 
> (Mot or Hex) files. 
>
> 2. Develop patch to integrate this utility with GNU linker. 
> An option can be added to the linker to merge the input (Mot or Hex) 
> files.

I think that option 2 is the one that I prefer.  It makes sense to me 
that the linker should be able to treat IHEX or S-REC files as inputs 
and combine them into a single IHEX/S-REC format output.

Cheers
  Nick