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Subject: Re: gcc object format -> need motorola s-records.
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Daniel Eischen wrote:

>On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Eric Jacobs wrote:
>
>  
>
>>On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 22:52:10 +0100
>>Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Does anyone know how to control the type of output files that gcc
>>>creates?  I need to generate motorola S-records instead of ELF files,
>>>but I can't find a switch to make this happen.  Do I need to build a new
>>>compiler by hand, and if so, does anyone know what the backend object
>>>format is called?
>>>      
>>>
>>gcc -Wl,--oformat -Wl,srec
>>    
>>
>
>I can't get that to work for me, but:
>
>  objcopy -O srec
>
>works.
>
>  
>
I really think you had to recompile all of gcc (like I;d posted 
before).  I know it's a method that's available from libiberty, but I 
didn't think it was compiled in unless you specifically optioned it.  At 
that point, then, you could give the options you mentioned and get it to 
work.