Re: [avr-gcc-list] avr-gcc and char strings

[Paweł Si]

2014-12-04 13:12 GMT+01:00 Simon Cook <address@hidden>:

In general, I would expect using neither -j nor -R would in most cases produce a working file, but there may be some cases where it is useful to know which of these to use. When you need them, -j is for when only a list of known sections are needed, and -R is for keeping everything except a given section.

Yes, probably:

$(OBJCOPY) -O ihex $(PROJECT).out $(PROJECT).hex

is good enough, I just copied "-R .eeprom" from one of my projects,

where I use the eeprom but don't want to have it in my hex file.

(I'm just lazy ;) )

You should also look what's the difference between these two files (with a simple editor):

$(OBJCOPY) -O binary $(PROJECT).out $(PROJECT).bin

and

$(OBJCOPY) -j .text -O binary $(PROJECT).out $(PROJECT).text_section_only.bin

and of course you should look at:

avr-objdump -D $(PROJECT).out > $(PROJECT).asm

the "__do_copy_data" part is the most interesting one.

Best Regards,

Paweł