ELF file

[Tien Nghiem]

Hi,

Does someone know how to convert a relocatable ELF file into an executable
ELF file?

Any help will be appreciated

Thank you

Tien Nghiem

[Adam Mallory]

"Tien Nghiem" <tnghiem@oerlikon.ca> wrote in
news:a9mjha$29b$1@inn.qnx.com:

Does someone know how to convert a relocatable ELF file into an
executable ELF file?

If you wish to do this for a BDM (to extract the sym info) and you BDM
barfs on relocatable ELF (for unknown reason) you could just use spatch to
modify the attribute in the ELF header. Take a look at the elf.h file and
the ELF spec to find the right position. It should be the e_type in the
header, and is should be set to ET_REL for relocatable or ET_EXEC for
executable.

Of course this assumes the BDM only cares about the sym info in the file.



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