Re: PATCH: Add updelfhdr

["H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:57 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Well, we do have 2 ELF specific programs in binutils: readelf and gold.
>>>
>>> I only want to update ELF header, nothing else. ?objcopy basically will
>>> rewrite the whole ELF file. Sometimes it fails, especially when the input isn't
>>> generated by the GNU linker. updelfhdr doesn't have such a problem.
>>
>> Well, that's a point or a bug ;-)
>>
>
> Sometimes that won't get things done :-). That is one reason why I wrote
> updelfhdr. It works on all ELF input files no matter who generated them.
>

BTW, objcopy doesn't work at all:

[hjl@gnu-6 binutils]$ objcopy -O elf64-l1om /bin/ls ls
objcopy: Warning: Output file cannot represent architecture `i386:x86-64'
[hjl@gnu-6 binutils]$ cp /bin/ls /tmp/
[hjl@gnu-6 binutils]$ ./updelfhdr --output-mach L1OM /tmp/ls
[hjl@gnu-6 binutils]$ readelf -h /tmp/ls
ELF Header:
  Magic:   7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  Class:                             ELF64
  Data:                              2's complement, little endian
  Version:                           1 (current)
  OS/ABI:                            UNIX - System V
  ABI Version:                       0
  Type:                              EXEC (Executable file)
  Machine:                           Intel L1OM
  Version:                           0x1
  Entry point address:               0x4026b0
  Start of program headers:          64 (bytes into file)
  Start of section headers:          111976 (bytes into file)
  Flags:                             0x0
  Size of this header:               64 (bytes)
  Size of program headers:           56 (bytes)
  Number of program headers:         8
  Size of section headers:           64 (bytes)
  Number of section headers:         32
  Section header string table index: 31
[hjl@gnu-6 binutils]$


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H.J.