ELF executable relinking

[Dave Korn]

----Original Message----
>From: Daniel Jacobowitz
>Sent: 13 April 2005 17:03

> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:50:33AM -0400, Francesco Casadei wrote:
>> Basically, I want to add new unrelated code to an existing ELF executable
>> ET_EXEC), by relinking it with a relocatable object (ET_REL).
>> Is it possible to input an executable and one or more relocatable
>> object to the link
>> editor and generate a new executable with code and data from all objects?
> 
> Generally no.


  That's why the non-relocatable link is also called a "final" link: it
tends to be fairly final!  (It discards information that would be needed to
link further object files in).


    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....