Interesting - they're getting ready for the DSPic...?

"Linear program memory addressing up to 4M instruction words"

With 24bit wide instructions that's 12MB.  Does the INHX8M standard
address that much space?  If not I can see MPLAB defaulting to the
larger format for all the PICs only to make things more consistant.
 Commercial programmers are likely set up to accept a wide variety of
formats so they won't be affected, only community and hobby made
programmers might be affected.

I wonder if this change in defaults is mentioned in any release notes...

-Adam


Mark J. Dulcey wrote:

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> You may have run into a problem in the El Cheapo software (version 0.77)
> that I discovered recently. It only activates if you use recent versions
> of MPLAB (presumably the new version of the command line MPASM has the
> same problem).
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> For some reason, this new version sometimes starts the hex file with an
> extended linear address record (32 bit address record), otherwise known
> as record type 4, even though there is no good reason to include such a
> record in a hex file for a processor with far less than 16 bits of
> address space. This record confuses the El Cheapo software; the result
> is that the PIC doesn't get programmed correctly.
>
> The workaround is to edit the .HEX file, and delete the first line. Then
> run the El Cheapo software and program the part.
>
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