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Re: creating binaries by objcopy

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Bahadir Balban <bahadir dot balban at gmail dot com>
Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 16:09:03 -0400
Subject: Re: creating binaries by objcopy
References: <7ac1e90c05060512412856a04b@mail.gmail.com> <20050605194401.GA3920@nevyn.them.org> <7ac1e90c050605125376b3ca26@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 08:53:53PM +0100, Bahadir Balban wrote:
> On 6/5/05, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> > The answers to these questions depend on your target and on your
> > linker.  It's hard to say.
> > 
> > --
> > Daniel Jacobowitz
> > CodeSourcery, LLC
> > 
> 
> In fact I am using an arm-elf-gcc toolchain and also arm-none-eabi
> from CodeSourcery. The problem is that after I generate a binary,
> objdump does not work on it, (fails with a not valid elf file error,
> which is expected) so I can't see if the file layout is somewhat what
> I want. How else could I find out?

You can't, really.  But it's going to be all of the sections of the ELF
file which have ALLOC set, and I believe that will include any
NOBITS sections like .bss.  The whole file will expect to be loaded to
a contiguous region of memory at the lowest address of any section with
contents.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC

References:
- creating binaries by objcopy
  - From: Bahadir Balban
- Re: creating binaries by objcopy
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz
- Re: creating binaries by objcopy
  - From: Bahadir Balban

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