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Re: File not recognized in objdump!!


Mike.. we have done a configure with the --target option which
recognozes the ELF64 file format and used the ia64 architecture.. Then
did a build which was neat worked without any errors./warnings..

So why is this error coming?

On 3/26/07, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
On Monday 26 March 2007, Aashish Gupta wrote:
> I am trying to modify objdump to dump object file information for a
> ELF64 file but on a different
> kernel but its giving an error saying file format not recognized.
>
> > [root@localhost binutils]# ./objdump -s /root/Desktop/testcase/test.o
> > ./objdump: /root/Desktop/testcase/test.o: File format not recognized
>
> Which part of the code should I look for in order to get through this
> error?

probably none ... build up a binutils for a target that supports the ELF
format you're trying to analyze and/or build up binutils
with --enable-targets=all
-mike




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Regards,
Aashish Gupta.


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