Extracting Equivalent Hex Values from a COFF File

Texas Instruments

Published Date: 06/22/1999

Description

During compilation and linking of code the assembler and linker create object and output files respectively. These files are in the common object file format (COFF). The initialized sections (.text .data and .sect) are placed in the processor memory when the program is loaded. The uninitialized sections (.bss and .usect) do not have any actual contents but instead they reserve space in memory