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20 years ago

nios2-elf-objcopy BUG??

we are using nios2-elf-objcopy.exe to produce hex file after building a project. in ihex file 03 record, that points to program entry point, should be MSB. for example we are have 0x00020000 as ...
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20 years ago

Hi m_fox,

> (XXXX<<4) + YYYY

>

> is it correct?

Yes.

> but it&#39;s funny, why objcopy sometimes generates records 05 and sometimes 03?

I don&#39;t know why this happens -- record type 05 (start linear address) is certainly

more appropriate for Nios (and virtually everything other than x86 in real mode).

But from a practical point-of-view, it probably doesn&#39;t matter -- since device

programmers don&#39;t use the start records.

Regards,

--Scott