18 Intel Hex output module

This chapter describes the Intel Hex output module which can be selected with the ‘-Fihex’ option.

18.1 Legal

This module is written in 2020 by Rida Dzhaafar and is covered by the vasm copyright without modifications.

18.2 Additional options for this module

‘-crlf’

Enforce Carriage-Return and Line-Feed ("\r\n") line endings. Default is to use the host’s line endings.

‘-i8hex’

Selects a format supporting 16-bit address space (default).

‘-i16hex’

Selects a format supporting 20-bit address space.

‘-i32hex’

Selects a format supporting 32-bit address space.

‘-record-size=<n>’

Sets the number of bytes per record to n. Defaults to 32 bytes.

18.3 General

This output module outputs the contents of all sections in Intel hex format, which is a simple ASCII output of hexadecimal digits.

18.4 Known Problems

Some known problems of this module at the moment:

• - None?

18.5 Error Messages

This module has the following error messages:

• - 3001: sections <%s>:%llx-%llx and <%s>:%llx-%llx must not overlap
• - 3002: output module doesn’t support cpu %s
• - 3007: undefined symbol <%s>
• - 3012: address 0x%llx out of range for selected format