Can LD link a raw binary directly?

[Ian Lance Taylor]

"Pan ruochen" <panruochen@gmail.com> writes:

> I want to put the data of a test file into the output ELF so that
> I can use the test data directly without FS operations.
> The tranditional way is to convert the binary test file to C array
> intializers text,
> and then compile the source including the array, and link objects.
> But this solution seems awkward. The flowchat of this solution is like:
>  binary without format --> text --> binary in ELF format
> So I wonder if LD can directly link binaries without format, as it does to
> binaries in ELF format.

Use -b binary.

Ian