I've just built a hex file for a PIC17C42A project that was last built in May 2000. I used MPLAB 8.92 Quickbuild to build the output hex file.
The May 2000 .hex file and the new one are identical apart from the fact the new file has one additional record at the beginning:
:020000040000FA
AFAICT this specifies an "Extended Linear Start Address" with a value of 0x0000 (upper 16 bits of 32 bit address) and so I can safely treat it as if it's not there. Is that correct?
Thanks
David