Question: How do you define the destination address of a block of code to be loaded by the device bootloader?

Answer: The destination address by default should come from the input .out file. This is discussed on page 12-30 in the 1997 Assembly Language Tools User's Guide in step 1. The address field of the Hex conversion utility output is not related to the section load addresses assigned by the linker. This is discussed on page 12-35 in the 1997 Assembly Language Tools User's Guide. The destination address of a section should appear as part of the data words in the hex file created by the Hex utility.