ELF header files

[Michael Eager]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 12/03/2010 04:33 PM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>  It would be
>> nice if a boot loader program can use the ELF header files.  Since the 
>> ELF
>> format description is platform independent I thought that Newlib could 
>> be the
>> right place to provide these header files.
> 
> bootloader == an application. Would you mind to explain why an 
> application would require an OS's libc to provide functions to access 
> object file internals and why this can't be achieved by using an 
> external library?

Glibc and uClibc both provide elf.h for the target.
One could argue that by analogy, Newlib should also.
But the argument that a libc has nothing to do with
the object format is correct.

Since binutils is the package which manipulates ELF
files, I think that binutils should install elf.h in
the target include directory.  (Several targets I've
worked with do this as a local mod.)

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