Messages in this thread | | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Mon, 4 Apr 2022 10:24:30 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove a.out support |
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On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 6:46 PM Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2022, James Jones wrote: > > Probably getting a bit off topic, but I did spend a few hours searching > > around for any existing tools to convert a binary from a.out->ELF, and > > trying to come up with something myself by extracting the sections with > > objdump and re-combining them into an ELF using a linker script placing > > the sections at the same locations. I couldn't get it working in an > > evening or two messing with it so I moved on, but I agree something like > > this seems possible in theory. > > Chiming in late as I'm scanning outstanding mailing list traffic: if this > is as you say all statically linked stuff, then converting from a.out to > ELF might be as easy as:
Probably, as https://lwn.net/Articles/889952/ claims dynamically linked a.out was broken in v5.1.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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