Table of Contents

Introduction; Before You Start: Fundamental Decisions; The GNU Toolchain; Gas: The GNU Assembler; Ld: GNU Linker; Converting Files with Objcopy; Objdump: Check Your Executable's Layout; Size: Check the Load Size of Your Executable; Gdb: The GNU Debugger; Example Firmware Walkthroughs and Debugging Techniques; Portability and Reliability Considerations; Useful Vendors and Other Web Resources; Index of Companion Website Contents; Acknowledgements

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About the Author

Lewin Edwards is an embedded engineer with over 15 years experience designing embedded systems hardware, firmware, and control software.