Re: Why is my executabel in DOS file format?

["Meg Abyte" <fitter20 at hotmail dot com>]

> Meg Abyte wrote:
> >  I have compile the GNU GCC tools for the Motorola MCORE on a RH linux 
> > system. However, when I make the executabel (.s19) it produces it in a DOS 
> > file format
>
> Gcc produces only assembly output files, and these are unlikely to be in 
> the wrong format.
>
> Normally the assembler files are turned into binaries by the 
> assembler/linker.  Binaries are not text files, so there isn't an issue 
> here about how to end lines of text.  The assembler/linker are in a 
> separate package called binutils.
> I don't know what you mean by a .s19 executable file.  Whatever tool you 
> are using to create the .s19 files is the one that has the problem. This is 
> not gcc, and perhaps not even binutils.  Unless perhaps this is some kind 
> of hex dump format, in which case binutils could be producing it.  Some 
> kinds of hex dumps might default to DOS file format because some ROM 
> programmers expect to receive DOS files as input, and won't work if fed 
> UNIX files.  In any case, binutils problems should not be discussed here.  
> Try bug-binutils@gnu.org if this is a binutils issue.
> --


Ok, I will try the address you gave. Yes, the executable is produced by the 
linker and it is a text file that gets sent to a microprocessor or 
programmed into Flash memory. However, it needs to have dos2unix run on it - 
thus my need to get rid of the CR-LF, and just have LF.

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