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Introduction

1.4 Related utilities

This section gives an overview of the utility tools that are provided to support the main

development tools, including:

•fromELF

•armar

• armprof.

See the ADS Linker and Utilities Guide for detailed information on the utilities.

1.4.1 fromELF

fromELF is the ARM image conversion utility. It accepts ELF format input files and

converts them to a variety of output formats, including:

• plain binary

• Motorola 32-bit S-record format

• Intel Hex-32 format

• Byte Oriented (Verilog Memory Model) Hex format

• Extended Intellec Hex (IHF) format (this option is deprecated and will be

removed from future versions of the product).

The utility can also:

• produce textual information about the input file

• disassemble code

• resave in ELF format.

1.4.2 armar

The ARM librarian enables you to collect and maintain sets of ELF files in

format

libraries. You can pass libraries to the linker in place of several ELF object files.

1.4.3 armprof

The ARM profiler displays an execution profile of a simple program from a profile data

file generated by an ARM debugger.