objcopy and ld: problem embedding string resource in executable

[Andrew Pinski]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 9:43 PM, shankarke@gmail.com
<shankarke@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> Is objcopy used in production environments as well. I was just trying to
> find the usecase for this tool in production.

Simple use case, when you need a static linked binary that you don't
have a loader for.  Think bootloaders.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski

>
> llvm infrastructure doesnot have objdump today, but I was thinking if its a
> important tool that would be used in production environments.
>
> Thanks
>
> Shankar Easwaran
>
>
>
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