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On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Harry G. Clayton wrote:

> If I remember correctly, you can configure binutils --with-targets=ALL
> (or something similar, see the various README/INSTALLs in binutils)
> and then objcopy can convert anything to anything.  (except that you
> won't benifit from converting binary or S-records to ELF for obvious
> reasons.  Rule of thumb, always convert from the most verbose object
> format to the least verbose.)

There are limits to what the object format conversion can do particularly
with debug information BUT it does work amazingly well on lots of cases.

I think Srecords are always included in the list of supported formats.

--joel
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