
Intel HEX files are often used to transfer the program and data that would be. These records are made up of hexadecimal numbers that represent machine language code and/or constant data. Each line in an Intel HEX file contains one HEX record. Thanks to Prerak who pointed it out and provided the link. The Intel HEX file is an ASCII text file with lines of text that follow the Intel HEX file format.

(Gosh, why am I explaining all that? Who will read it?! I should have simply marked the question as off-topic and explain that this forum is just for software developers.)Īs to the Intel HEX file format, it's already in ASCII. NET strings are supported in Unicode encoding UTF-16, and ASCII is only related to one of the presentations of data in form of array of byte (in case of ASCII, one byte represents one character, in contrast to all Unicode UTFs) and used in serialization of data written in stream/file. Īlso, data formatted as hexadecimal or decimal cannot be "converted with ASCII values", because in. Indeed I want to write a program to generate a hex file from C source files. for it, I searched, but all things I find is about keil and how to use keil for generating hex file. The whole notion of positional numeral system with certain base is only related to string ("human-readable") representation of numeric data, not to machine representation (which is always "binary"). I used keil to do this but now I need to generate this hex file without using keil. Numeric data cannot be hexadecimal or decimal.


There is not such think as INTEL HEXADECIMAL data type of format. preprocessed source files -> compiler -> object files + list files (optional) It is important to understand this in particular to understand that the 'compiler' itself never sees the parts of the original sources that are replaced by the 'preprocessor'. This "question" is apparent gibberish (see ). Source files -> preprocessor -> preprocessed source files 2.
