[ECOS] ELF, AIF and AXF formats

["Jason van Aardt" <Jason at roninwireless dot com>]

I cannot seem to find any definative answer to the following question on the WEB:

Is the AXF format used by the ARM developer Suite tools(debuggers), pure ELF format
or a modified format.
If I look at the AXF file examples that come with the evaluation copy, the word ELF appears in the first few bytes of the file.

There is also an executable called "FROMELF.EXE", that can spit out various binary formats as well as AIF.
Does anyone know why the debuggers only want to open AXF files, where I could perhaps find some more info 
about the formats AXF and AIF and what the difference is between AIF and AXF.


AS I said I could find no info at the ARM site, or after searching the WEB.


The ultimate reason for all of this is:  would it then be possible to build ECOS with gcc, 
but load embedded via MULTI_ICE via RDI and one of these windows debuggers?

I see that X_RAY advertises that there is ELF support, also not much info on this, has anybody had any experience with it?

It appears that ARM only now sells the MULTI-ICE and no longer the embedded-ICE, and  it appears that it is
not certain if GDB will obtain MULTI_ICE support in the near future.





Thanks
Jason van Aardt