PowerPC ELF: retain program headers and relocation records inoutput file?

Alan Modra alan@linuxcare.com.au
Tue Jan 30 22:33:00 GMT 2001


On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Paul Mikell wrote:

> I have compiled gcc-2.95.2 and binutils 2.10.1 for cross-compiling from Cygwin
> to PowerPC. The target machine requires the executable to be converted to a
> proprietary format before it can be run. In order for this conversion to work,
> the ELF file created by ld must contain program headers and relocation records.
> Is there any way that GNU ld can create such an output file?

"ld -r" is the normal way to create partialy linked files with relocation
records, but that doesn't create executables.  "ld --emit-relocs" may do
what you want.

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