How can Eclipse binaries search be configured to recognize .srec format?

Question

I see that Eclipse CDT/Embedded has a capability to find binaries such as .elf, .bin, .exe... I was wondering whether this is configurable setting or not, since I would like it to add too the Motorola binary formatting called .srec.

Any hint on how or where I can add this onto Eclipse CDT?

Thanks in advance,

Answer 1

SREC is an ASCII object file format so to use a binary search makes little sense. You could use a text search, but to search for particular binary sequences that span more than one record would be complicated.

What you could do is convert the SREC file to a raw binary file, then use the binary search on that. Conversion to raw binary can for example be done using the SRecord utility, e.g.:

    srec_cat myobject.srec −o myobject.bin −binary

If you add that as a post-build step, the binary version of your SREC file will always be available for searching.