I was playing with ralphd's bootloader which uses avr-gcc.
After the irritation of byte-arithmetic for a word-addressed AVR, I moved to the Atmel Assembler.
Now I have an intuitive location counter with obvious arithmetic but obviously need to calculate byte-addressing for data in Flash.
Anyway, I am reasonably happy with the project now. So I thought that I should make it buildable with GCC and Avrasm2.
When it comes to produce a listing, you can use avr-as -ahls=listing.lst or use avr-objdump -S
Since avr-as is producing relocatable objects, the location counter is 0x0000 based.
The avr-objdump will show the absolute locations set by the linker.
But the really irritating thing is that the location counter is displayed as high-low and opcodes are displayed as low-high:
listing.lst:
153 0000 54B7 in rCOUNT, MCUSR
listing.lss:
in rCOUNT, MCUSR e00: 54 b7 in r21, 0x34 ; 52
avrasm2.lst
000700 b754 in rCOUNT, MCUSR
I can live with the weird location counter. I really get upset by an opcode 0xb754 being displayed as "54 b7" or "54B7".
I presume that there is an avr-as switch that shows opcodes properly. After all, most MCUs in the world are little-endian.
David.