RE: ELF file format

["Gupta Nitin (IFIN DC AI)" <Nitin dot Gupta at infineon dot com>]

>Is the size utility or the objdump will only accept
>the .o file generated by the gcc compiler ?
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The objdump is not necessarily used for object files from gcc.
It can accept various formats including coff, intel hex and motorola
s-record.
What you need to do is get the binary from your compiler and identify the
type of file. A simple catch is use 'file' utility. Or you may have to read
the compiler documents.
Accordinly, invoke objdump if the file format is supported in bfd of
binutils.
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>> Yes - objdump.  If the files are in the ELF format
>> then the readelf
>> program can also read them.
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>> What information do you want about these sections ? 
>> Their size ?
>> Their contents ?  There position in the file ?
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>> Which version of the binutils sources are you using
>> ?  How did you
>> build these sources ?  How did you build the object
>> file that size
>> does not recognise ?
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>> The size program is able to display the sizes of
>> object files whose
>> format it recognises.
>> 
>> Cheers
>>         Nick
>> 
>> PS.  Please reply to the list and not to me
>> directly.
>> 
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