ECE423 Lab1

The lab writeup had  images of various CCS windows showing options selected, such as –k, -s, -w, and -x. It was not clear how to invoke these options or even what they meant. The bottom line is for the most part they don’t determine whether or not the program will run, but they may be necessary for certain exercises we do in, for example in reading through the assembly files which are created.

 Here are a few options seen in the images and their meanings:

Option	Meaning	How to Select
-k	Keep assembly files created	Compiler->Assy, select box for –k
-s	Strip symbol information from executable	Linker->Advanced, selecte box for –s
-w	Turn on all warnings	Linker->Advanced, select –w
-x	Exhaustively read all libraries	Linker->Basic, select -x

Note that we normally de-select the warnings, so if you see warnings, that may be the reason.