Re: ELF header files

[Ralf Corsepius <ralf dot corsepius at rtems dot org>]

On 12/03/2010 10:45 PM, Michael Eager wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On 12/03/2010 04:33 PM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> > > It would be
> > > nice if a boot loader program can use the ELF header files. Since the
> > > ELF
> > > format description is platform independent I thought that Newlib
> > > could be the
> > > right place to provide these header files.
> >
> > bootloader == an application. Would you mind to explain why an
> > application would require an OS's libc to provide functions to access
> > object file internals and why this can't be achieved by using an
> > external library?
>
> Glibc and uClibc both provide elf.h for the target.
> One could argue that by analogy, Newlib should also.
> But the argument that a libc has nothing to do with
> the object format is correct.
>
> Since binutils is the package which manipulates ELF
> files, I think that binutils should install elf.h in
> the target include directory. (Several targets I've
> worked with do this as a local mod.)

Correct me if I am wrong, but as far as I know, none of the binutils 
files is being used on a target. They are all host files, i.e. used by 
binutils but not as part of a target library.

Ralf