creating binaries by objcopy

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 08:41:30PM +0100, Bahadir Balban wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The binutils manual says:
> 
> "When objcopy generates a raw binary file, it will essentially produce
> a memory dump of the contents of the input object file. All symbols
> and relocation information will be discarded."
> 
> So if I have an ELF file that is defined to be scatter-loaded into
> various addresses in memory, and also includes a bss section,
> 
> a) If I convert this to a binary via objcopy, does this mean I lose
> all the loader-related services to do the scatter-loading, and
> allocation of the bss?
> 
> b) Do I need to define routines that copy the scattered sections, zero
> out the bss etc if I want to have such services of a loader? Is there
> a better way to do this? Do RTOSes define their own methods to do
> these?

The answers to these questions depend on your target and on your
linker.  It's hard to say.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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