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From: fredm@media.mit.edu (Fred Martin)
Subject: Re: Interactive C
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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 19:25:45 GMT
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In article <CJKs1t.7uz@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>
nowinski@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Andrew Nowinski) writes: 

>I have had Interactive C (IC) for about a week now. 
>What I noticed so far is that when I run IC the program starts to
>communicate with my 68HC11 microcontroller (mine is similar to
>the 6.270 microcontroller). I would like to know if there is a
>way to compile C programs that I made using Interactive C to a
>OBJ, HEX or a S19 file so I can later program a EPROM with the 
>the OBJ, HEX or the S19 file?

Sorry, IC doesn't let you do this.  It requires that the 6811 be
running the pcode.s19 6811 "operating system".  This program is needed
to interpret/execute the pseudo-object code produced by IC.

You might get the idea to run the pcode program, get IC to download
your C code, and then dump the data from the board to an .s19 file.
Then you might try to burn the resulting "core dump" into an EPROM.

Don't try this.  It won't work because the pcode program assumes it's
running out of SRAM in a number of places.  Sorry, Interactive C was
developed to be an interactive/education robotics system,
not a professional/real development environment.

	-Fred
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