For completeness there is also a 02 record type that contains a segment
(as opposed to 16 top bits of linear address). Don't know why you'd ever
use that for a PIC, but you might want to ignore it too.

Al Williams
AWC
* Floating point A/D
http://www.al-williams.com/awce/pak9.htm


> -----Original Message-----
> From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of wouter van
> ooijen & floortje hanneman
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 1:16 PM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: new in .hex file: type 04 lines?
>
>
> > If I recall correctly, 04 provides the top 16 bits of a 32-bit
> > address. It stays in force until another 04 record occurs.
> >
> > It always looks like :0200004XXXXCC
> >
> > Where XXXX is the segment address and CC is the usual checksum.
>
> That would explain it nicely. Only one such line appears, and
> it is the first line. I wanted to know because I want my
> compiler to produce exactly the same .hex file as mpasm. And
> I guess I'll have to update my programmer software to ignore
> such a line. Thanks!
>
> Wouter
>
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