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Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:19:00 -0000
From: "dimax un" <dimax.un@gmail.com>
To: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
Subject: Re: Accessing ihex file
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Thanks.
I'm thinking to use objcopy as a reference code.
I need to write application to send ihex file in via GPRS to the
target for FW update.
But I do not want to send it as ASCII Hex as receiving part is not
capable to parse it. So I'll have to convert it into binary buffer.


On 9/9/06, Dave Korn <dave.korn@artimi.com> wrote:
> On 09 September 2006 13:16, dimax un wrote:
>
> > Hello.
> > What methods should I use to access intel HEX file? As far as I could
> > understand libbfd may do it but I'm not sure. Can you please clear it
> > for me?
>
>  Yes, and you can use the 'ihex' target with any of the binutils, e.g.
>
> objcopy -O ihex -j .text foo.o foo.ihex
>
> will extract the .text section from object file foo.o and write it in ihex
> format to foo.ihex.
>
>    cheers,
>      DaveK
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