Object code????????

MacGeek117

I was looking through the Basic Stamp Editor, and found that you can generate object code. How do you use object code??? I don't like to press buttons without knowing what they do.
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Jim McCorison

Bugg,

Object code is the result of a compile. When you press F9, the IDE compiles the PBASIC source code into object code and that code is then automatically loaded up to the Stamp. What you don't see is the object phase of it.

There is a program which can be run to upload an object file to a Stamp without having the source or the IDE. Why do that? Well, for commercial products you usually don't want to disclose your source code, but you have to update a device at a remote location. To do that, you produce the object code from the IDE, then ship the object code and loader program to a customer and they run it on a PC connected via a serial link. This is basically what you do if you flash a new version of the BIOS in your computer. There is an option which will actually generate a combined loader executable and object into one program. You just run that one program and it's done.

Go ahead and give it a whirl.

Jim

MacGeek117

Thank you! I don't know why, but I'm scared of finding the self-destruct button.
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Geordi: "It's like the laws of physics went right out the window!"
Q: "And why shouldn't they, they're so inconvenient!"

Geordi LaForge, Chief Engineer, USS Enterprise, NCC 1701-D
Q, Omnipotent Prankster