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Re: Convert ELF with stabs to A.OUT

From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
To: "Smets, Jan (Jan)" <jan dot smets at alcatel-lucent dot com>
Cc: "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 16:08:11 +1030
Subject: Re: Convert ELF with stabs to A.OUT
References: <14C7F4F06DB5814AB0DE29716C4F6D671D85A420@FRMRSSXCHMBSB1.dc-m.alcatel-lucent.com>

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 05:38:27PM +0100, Smets, Jan (Jan) wrote:
> I'm wondering if there is a way to convert ELF executables with
> stabs debugging information to the older a.out format.

Translating executables is too difficult for objcopy.  Recompile and
relink.  If you don't have the source, then you've discovered one of
the reasons why open source is so nice.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

References:
- Convert ELF with stabs to A.OUT
  - From: Smets, Jan (Jan)

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