Epson S5U1C17001C, Manual

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EPSOn
S5U1C17001C ManUal
(C COMPilEr PaCkagE fOr S1C17 faMily) (Ver. 1.5.0)
11 OTHEr TOOlS
11.4 objcopy.exe
11.4.1 function
The
objcopy
is the gnu standard object file format conversion utility, and it copies and converts data format of
object files.
In application development for the S1C17 Family, this tool is used to convert an elf format object file into Motorola
S3 format HEX files so that data can be written to the ROMs.
Although
objcopy
supports many functions (options) and file formats, this section treats only the elf to HEX file
conversion function. Refer to the documents for the gnu utilities for details of
objcopy
.
11.4.2 input/Output files
input file
Object file
File format: Binary file in elf format
File name:
<filename>
.elf
Description: An executable object file after the linkage process by the linker has been completed.
Output file
HEX file
File format: Motorola S3 format file
File name:
<filename>
.sa
Description: A HEX data file for writing to the ROM. When the system uses two or more ROMs, create a data
file for each ROM by extracting the section data to write to the ROM from the elf object file.