Re: [AVaRICE-user] Avarice file formats

[E. W. <er...@ec...>]

"Theodore A. Roth" wrote:

> I would really like support for handling elf files in avarice and I think
> that bfd is the best way to do that.

Hi,

I thought I'd add my 2 cents on this debate.

SRecord is a decent package, and I even include binaries of it in the Windows
distribution of the AVR toolset, WinAVR.

But I agree in that SRecord is targeted to object / load files such as Moto SRecord,
Intel Hex, etc. It is not geared towards any binary formats (except raw). IMHO,
SRecord would not be an ideal solution for this. (But it is a *useful* package for
any embedded developer.)

On Windows platforms, bfd, by itself, is not casually made to the users. If the
support is built-in to the avarice executable that would be the best for this
platform.

avarice has been built for Windows and is now distributed in the latest WinAVR
release (20030312). However it works out, any solution that continues this cross
platform ability would be a win.

Eric Weddington