I believe .ihx and .hex are the same thing. (.ihx is short for Intel Hex). Packihx just rearranges it some, making sure there aren't more than 16 bytes per line and removing redundant extended address records. The SDCC hex output is often non-contiguous and out-of-order, i.e. the addresses aren't always increasing as you go through the hex file, which I've found a bit confusing sometimes and can occasionally cause problems with naive programmer or bootloader utilities. Packihx doesn't fix that, though. You can use makebin to convert to a binary file which is contiguous.
Henry On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Ma Xiaojun <damage3...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, all. > > The command "sdcc foo.c" generates "foo.ihx". And "packihx foo.ihx > > foo.hex" is needed to generate the .hex file. > > As some may know, STC-51's VB written Windows-only ISP software > accepts .bin and .hex only. I have no idea about the situation of > other vendors' 8051. > > The question is, why generates .ihx by default? Is it preferred by > some programmers or some vendors' 8051? Or there are other reasons? > > Regards, > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt > New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service > that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your > browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic > and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may > _______________________________________________ > Sdcc-user mailing list > Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
