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Jan Waclawek
03/15/10 16:48
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#174171 - omf51 vs cdb
Responding to: Juergen Christoph's previous message
SDCC does output OMF51, but only as a secondary "byproduct", and of course only the original Intel version, without Keil's "proprietary" (what a funny buzzword replacement for "we don't give it away because of competition") extensions.

Contrary to Keil's extension to OMF51, SDCC's native object format, CDB, is well documented (there's an online version, of that document too). It should be fairly easy to read and parse it instead of OMF51. IIRC the Ramtron Versa debugger does exactly that.

Given the nature of open source, it is not impossible even to modify or expand on the existing format, or create and implement a wholly new one, if needed. The "industry standard" is of course ELF/DWARF, but that's maybe a bit more than needed for '51.

JW


List of 39 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
SDCC download      Erik Malund      03/05/10 11:53      
   Here you go...      Robert Revens      03/05/10 12:13      
   newest      Jan Waclawek      03/05/10 12:30      
      Has any effort gone into documentation?        Richard Erlacher      03/05/10 18:20      
         documentation      Jan Waclawek      03/06/10 03:16      
            Just to add...      Robert Revens      03/06/10 04:02      
               more howto-s      Jan Waclawek      03/06/10 05:13      
                  the first 'oddity' is ...      Erik Malund      03/06/10 06:46      
                     I think you dreamt that one eric      Jez Smith      03/06/10 07:27      
                        No - it's a well-known Gotcha! in SDCC!      Andy Neil      03/06/10 11:46      
                           Reference: ISRs (or prototypes) must be in same file as main      Andy Neil      03/07/10 01:04      
                     linking      Jan Waclawek      03/06/10 14:36      
                        I see it not correct      Erik Malund      03/06/10 14:51      
                           I don't understand      Jan Waclawek      03/06/10 15:04      
                              what is it you do not understand?      Erik Malund      03/07/10 07:11      
                                 Does it not recognise...      Andy Neil      03/07/10 07:25      
                                 Surely not...      Robert Revens      03/07/10 08:42      
                                    "magic"      Jan Waclawek      03/07/10 10:44      
                                       That's not the fault of 'C'!!      Andy Neil      03/07/10 13:14      
                                       highly unusal, but      Erik Malund      03/07/10 18:42      
                                       Try java etc      Oliver Sedlacek      03/08/10 07:54      
                                 I now see why is this confusing      Jan Waclawek      03/07/10 10:27      
               emulation?      Andy Peters      03/11/10 15:53      
                  Source-level debug      Robert Revens      03/11/10 16:15      
                     symbol information      Maarten Brock      03/12/10 04:05      
                        re: symbol information      Andy Peters      03/15/10 18:40      
                           hex-file download?      Maarten Brock      03/16/10 05:46      
                              hex vs omf      Andy Peters      03/16/10 12:08      
                     Keil proprietary stuff?      Andy Neil      03/12/10 05:01      
                        extended omf51      Juergen Christoph      03/12/10 07:11      
                           omf51 vs cdb      Jan Waclawek      03/15/10 16:48      
                        proprietary file format?      James Hinnant      03/15/10 01:22      
                           I don't see why not      Andy Neil      03/15/10 01:33      
                              So, what do *you* mean by, "proprietary" ?      Andy Neil      03/16/10 02:15      
                                 AutoCAD      Per Westermark      03/16/10 03:15      
                           Yes      Per Westermark      03/15/10 01:37      
                              patentable vs proprietary      James Hinnant      03/15/10 23:39      
                                 Proprietary is a questin of ownership, not protection      Per Westermark      03/16/10 01:06      
   bouncing email      Maarten Brock      03/07/10 14:38      

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