I am currently working with a GNU tool chain obtained from Altera for
the NIOS processor. Here is the version information obtained from a
'nios-elf-objcopy -V' command:
<start>
GNU objcopy 2.9-nios-010801-20030722
Copyright 1997, 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no warranty.
<end>
I am currently having a problem of objcopy making S-Records with 21 data
bytes in them and am looking for a solution (21 bytes will be *very*
inconvenient when I go to use these to FLASH a 16-bit device). On a
redirect from someone, I have been browsing the archives of this mailing
list and found an apparent patch for objcopy that would fix my problem.
Here are the references to the messages I found:
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2000-09/msg00321.html
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2000-03/msg00346.html
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2000-03/msg00416.html
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2000-03/msg00427.html
Can someone please tell me if/how I can apply this patch to my version
of objcopy so that I may get 16-byte S-Records generated and ease my
life considerably? Or is there just a switch I need to activate that is
not documented in 'nios-elf-objcopy -h' that I can use already?
Thanks,
Dan