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Re: [MiNT] obsolete aout binutils?

To: Frank Naumann <fnaumann@boerde.de>
Subject: Re: [MiNT] obsolete aout binutils?
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 17:05:16 +0200
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Frank Naumann <fnaumann@boerde.de> writes:

> Hello!
>
>> Also you can read at
>> http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=5&topic=elf about "relocation
>> section". So I think ELF doesn't forget about this information.
>> Perhaps there are numerous different ELF variants? (Linux, FreeBSD, Sun,...)
>
> Normally only ELF object files (*.o) have relocation informations, not 
> linked executables.

ELF does not place any restrictions on what kind of contents it can have
(among the content types defined for ELF).  It's all about conventions.
There is nothing preventing you from putting relocation information in an
ET_EXEC object.  And even if anything is missing in the ELF spec you can
easily define you own extensions.

Andreas.

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References:
- [MiNT] Binutils Information
  - From: Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.com>
- Re: [MiNT] Binutils Information
  - From: Patrice Mandin <mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr>
- Re: [MiNT] Binutils Information
  - From: Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk>
- Re: [MiNT] Binutils Information
  - From: Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.com>
- Re: [MiNT] obsolete aout binutils?
  - From: Philipp Donzé <philipp.donze@epfl.ch>
- Re: [MiNT] obsolete aout binutils?
  - From: Frank Naumann <fnaumann@boerde.de>

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