Re: [avr-chat] Re: GUI wrapper for avrdude

[Joerg Wunsch]

As Michael Hennebry wrote:

> Let there be hardcoded default section names
> and parameters like --hfuse-section-name .

Btw., you wouldn't get AVR-centric options like this one into official
GNU binutils.  The binutils are fairly generic in their entire idea,
and support several dozens of different CPUs and object file formats.

My idea is that it simply doesn't matter whether you use objcopy (to
get a hex file) or not: avrdude can read both, the ELF file, but could
also obtain the very same information from an (*) Intel hex file
produced by objcopy.  The option to pass hex files as an alternative
to full ELF files has been requested by users.  Not everybody would be
happy to pass along the entire ELF file (it's simply a matter of trust
to not give any trade secrets out of house), and companies specialized
on pre-programming AVRs are familiar with hex files, but it will take
a while until you could convince them to also accept alternate file
formats.

(*) With "an" meaning *exactly one*, not two, three, or five
different hex files, as we are doing now.

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