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RE: Elf to Bin format
- To: "Narayana, Venkat A." <NarayVA at nsc-msg01 dot network dot com>
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] Elf to Bin format
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 12:59:52 -0600 (MDT)
- Cc: "ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com" <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>,
- Cc: "ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com" <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>,Mark Salter <msalter at redhat dot com>
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
On 04-Jun-2001 Narayana, Venkat A. wrote:
> Hi Friends,
> Thanks you very much for helping me a learn a lot.
> The problem i encountered is both with my experimentation
> and with the convert tool i am using.This tool,by default,
> will convert elf sections based on Virtual addresses,
> not on physical addresss. This means that the bin file
> will not contain any sections, whose reloc addresses are
> different from load address. To compound the matters,
> the bin file size this tool created is same as objcopy's
> bin file, hence the confusion.
>
> Thanks for your patience and help.
>
> Thanks to Mark, Jonathan, Gary and others.
>
This note implies that you are using a tool other than objcopy.
Is this true? If so, why?