Ah.... That's explained that. I just needed a nudge in the right direction.
Now, why does the answer to one question lead to a whole bunch of suplimenty questions?
westfw:
> avr-objdump -march=avr -s optiboot_atmega328.hex
optiboot_atmega328.hex: file format ihex
Contents of section .sec1:
7e00 1f92cdb7 deb71124 84b714be 982f9d70 .......$...../.p
:
7fc0 f1cf282e 80e0e8df e0e0ff27 0994 ..(........'..
Contents of section .sec2:
7ffe 0206 ..
Section? (blue highlighting)
I can't find any reference in the Intel Hex File Format or the avr_objdump documentation.
Is it a "compiler thing"? Writing to two sections of memory, which, in this case just happen to be contiguous?
Many, (many), thanks for your patience, Martin