Re: [avr-chat] Avrdude 6.01 does not like zero-length eeprom hex files

[Joerg Wunsch]

Bob von Knobloch <address@hidden> wrote:

> Since updating to avrdude 6.01, I get errors.
> 
> Tracking this down it seems that avrdude dores not like it if I try to 
> program an eeprom intel hex file with zero information in it (generated 
> from a source where no eeprom data is defined).

Yes, known bug:

https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?40142

The percentage calculation is now based on the actual amount of data
to be programmed (rather than the total memory size), and this caused
the calculation to divide by zero if you try uploading an empty file
(or memory contents, e.g. out of an ELF file).

Will be fixed, but doesn't seem to be too urgent to me to warrant
another dot-dot release.  "Doctor, it hurts when I do this!" -- "Don't
do this." ;-)
-- 
cheers, Joerg               .-.-.   --... ...--   -.. .  DL8DTL

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