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Re: objdump/objcopy

Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:46:03 -0800
From:
Pete Popov <pete@jones.asd.sel.sony.com>
Reply-To:
Pete Popov <pete@jones.asd.sel.sony.com>
CC: crossgcc@cygnus.com


Art,

>>Hello,
>>
>>I'm trying to convert a Motorola S-records file to
>>coff-m68k format.My objcopy/objdump support both formats but
>>I can't successfully convert from srec to coff-m68k.The
>>srec file name is rom.ms; when I dump the contents with
>>"objdump --full-contents rom.ms", objdump recognizes the
>>file format as srec and dumps the contents.Then I try
>>to convert it to coff-m68k by "objcopy -I srec -O coff-m68k rom.ms rom.x"
>>and it always complains "Output file cannot represent architecture UNKNOWN!",
>>but it does create the file rom.x.However, when I try to dump the
>>contents of rom.x with "objdump --full-contents rom.x", it says
>>"File format not recognized".
>>
>>Any suggestions?Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>>Pete

>S-record files have essentially no section information in them from which to
>build coff header information.I guess in theory that objcopy could
>treat all of the S-record information as being in the .text section
>and kludge up some coff headers, but it would have little usefulness.
>You certainly can't get any symbol information out of the S-records.

Thank you for the info!

Pete

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