[ECOS] Elf to Bin format

[Grant Edwards]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:26:44PM -0400, Mark Salter wrote:
> >>>>> Narayana, Venkat A writes:
> 
> > 	objdump of redboot.elf
> 
> > arm-elf-objdump -h redboot.elf | more
> 
> > redboot.elf:     file format elf32-littlearm
> 
> > Sections:
> > Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
> >   0 .debug_aranges 000005a0  00000000  00000000  0003a7d4  2**0
> >                   CONTENTS, READONLY, DEBUGGING
> >   1 .debug_pubnames 000027b0  00000000  00000000  0003ad74  2**0
> >                   CONTENTS, READONLY, DEBUGGING
> >   2 .debug_info   000303df  00000000  00000000  0003d524  2**0
> >                   CONTENTS, READONLY, DEBUGGING
> >   3 .debug_abbrev 00004794  00000000  00000000  0006d903  2**0
> >                   CONTENTS, READONLY, DEBUGGING
> >   4 .debug_line   000184ab  00000000  00000000  00072097  2**0
> >                   CONTENTS, READONLY, DEBUGGING
> >   5 .rom_vectors  00000040  a0000000  00000000  00008000  2**0
> >                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, CODE
> >   6 .text         000274b4  00002000  00002000  0000a000  2**14
> >                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
> >   7 .fini         00000000  000294b4  000294b4  0008a542  2**0
> >                   CONTENTS
> >   8 .rodata       00006e38  000294b4  000294b4  000314b4  2**2
> >                 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
> >   9 .rodata1      00000000  000302ec  000302ec  0008a542  2**0
> >                   CONTENTS
> >  10 .fixup        00000000  000302ec  000302ec  0008a542  2**0
> >                   CONTENTS
> >  11 .gcc_except_table 00000000  000302ec  000302ec  0008a542  2**0
> >                   CONTENTS
> >  12 .fixed_vectors 00000160  a1f00020  a1f00020  0008a560  2**5
> >                   CONTENTS
>                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> This looks worng. You mentioned earlier that you moved .fixed_vectors.
> This may be triggering a objcopy bug. Objcopy would try to put the
> .fixed_vectors at offset 0xa1f00020 in the binary file which would
> make the file ~2.7G long. Objcopy might be giving up at this point
> so it doesn't get to .data.

Won't objcopy just skip that section if it doesn't have the
"LOAD" flag set?

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com