On Jul 5, 2008, at 6:46 PM, Jinx wrote:

> Kind of my feeling too. It's always been my way to write code
> and get just a .hex file out of it. No .obj no .lkr. no libraries no
> anything else but a .hex.

But that can all be automated away, using an IDE, something like  
"make", or just .BAT files, leaving you with nothing but a .HEX, if  
that's what you want.  The added build time ought to be trivial on a  
modern OS.  For example, the Arduino environment for AVR ends up  
generating pre-processed source, .o (relocatable input for  
linker), .a (linkable/searchable libraries), .elf ("executable", but  
with symbols and such), .rom and .hex files (not sure what the  
difference is between those.)

But all that is kept invisible to the user...

BillW

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