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Re: PATCH: Add updelfhdr

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi H.J.
>
>> I wrote a program to update ELF header. ?Currently it can change
>> ELF machine type between L1OM and X86-64.
>
> I have to ask why make a separate program when you have just as easily added
> this functionality to objcopy ?
>

For the same reason that we have both readelf and objdump? objcopy is overkill.
It reads input into internal memory and write them out. My program updates files
in place. It doesn't read in the whole file into memory.



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H.J.
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