Flat binary format (bFLT) tools

[Shaun Jackman]

2006/1/7, Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@hogyros.de>:
> Shaun Jackman schrieb:
> > Does binutils have any relationship with the uClinux flat binary
> > format (bFLT) tools, elf2flt and flthdr? Is there any possibility of
> > elf2flt being rolled into objcopy by adding bFLT support to the BFD?
>
> I have a tree that partially supports them (namely, disassembling works,
> and objcopy will do something but not the right thing yet).
>
> Creating bFLT binaries is difficult as there is no way of telling the
> linker to resolve as many relocs as it can, but not assign addresses to
> the sections (this is why elf2flt has a full understanding of all the
> reloc types -- you give it a relocatable input file, it resolves the
> relative relocs by hand, applies all the addends and then creates a list
> of locations containing absolute relocs.

It's certainly a starting point! Can you post a patch?

Thanks,
Shaun