Tool/software: TI C/C++ Compiler
I have two output files (boot.out and application.out) that I want to combine into a single merged.out file. I want to do this so that I have a single image that I can use with the CCS debugger to debug and evaluate the final executable just as it would appear in the delivered product (boot.out and application.out have already been independently debugged). The problem I am having with the examples provided at "processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Combining_executable_files" is that all three examples assume that I am relocating the input files. I do not want to do this. I want all the sections in boot.out to stay at the absolute addresses defined in boot.out, and similar for application.out (please note that both ".out" files contain multiple non-contiguous sections). Here is what I have tried:
(1) If I use hex2000 to merge the two ".out" files using --load_image, the result is a ".obj" file instead of a ".out" file. I have been unsuccessful getting the debugger to use a ".obj" file instead of a ".out" file.
(2) If I use hex2000 to independently create boot.obj and application.obj files (again using the --load_image option), then use cl2000 to merge them together, I get a ".out" file but everything has been relocated. Defining starting addresses using a section such as "{boot.obj(boot_image*)} > a_starting_address" does not work because the sections in boot.obj are not contiguous (i.e. each section defined in boot.obj would have to get assigned its own unique starting address).
Thank you.
