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Re: [PATCH] ld/ldlang.c: fatal error on architecture mismatch

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:28:27AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> 
> > Would anyone be more amenable to making it an error with an entry in
> > NEWS or in the manual describing how to build an image without an
> > entry point?  Someone else will have to write it; I never do that.
> 
> Building an image without an entry point is trivial: link as usual,
> then objcopy -O binary.

I don't know what you mean, but it's not what I mean.  That binary
still has an entry point; it's just not recorded in the binary file.
It may be in the ELF file, and tools which use the ELF file (like
GDB, or static analysis tools) may use it.

We do this with all our bare-metal toolchains.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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