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Hi.

I have successfully installed Gcc261 as well as Binutils252 to
be used as a crosscompiler environment for the H8/300
microcontroller.
Yes, it seems to work quite well, Gcc can produce assembler code
that is read by GAS, which in turn generates object files
(which I can disassemble and also looks correct) that can
be linked to something that is refered to a H8300-COFF.

I do know that coff is the executable file format used by f.e.
svr3, but what I need is a plain hex file to load into my
eprom programmer.

So, how can I convert 'executable' files created by GCC/GAS/LD
into some sort of hexfiles (intellex,motorola whatever) that
I can read into my eprom programmer software ?
If no such software exist, where can I find technical specifications
of the COFF file format so that I may write such a conversion tool
myself ?

I have tried reading the docs accompanying both gas ld and bfd
but did not succeed in finding anything regarding this problem.
I am certain that this kind of tool exist, since a lot of microcontrollers
are supported by both gcc and gas.

thanks in advance.
   ronnie sahlberg