From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: binutils@sourceware.org
Cc: Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com>,
Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>,
Ralf Corsepius <ralf.corsepius@rtems.org>
Subject: Re: binary to elf conversion
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708161405.08914.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46C48BAB.7030406@oarcorp.com>
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On Thursday 16 August 2007, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com> writes:
> >> Produced by this command:
> >>
> >> powerpc-rtems4.8-objcopy -I binary -O elf32-powerpc tarfile
> >> o-optimize/tarfile.o
> >
> > You need to specify the binary architecture.
> >
> > -B --binary-architecture <arch> Set arch of output file, when input is
> > binary
>
> I don't know how it ever worked at all if I was missing that.
> It arch going to always be the canonical name of the target
> architecture? I tried my powerpc and mips and it worked.
>
> Why doesn't it default to the default architecture binutils was
> built for?
i think a similar question was posed for default -EB/-EL selection and the
answer was no one really cared enough to fix it ;)
i imagine if you posted a patch, there wouldnt really be objections to the
behavior change ...
-mike
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-16 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-16 14:55 Joel Sherrill
2007-08-16 16:20 ` Sergei Organov
2007-08-16 16:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-08-16 17:39 ` Joel Sherrill
2007-08-16 18:04 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2007-08-17 14:08 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-08-19 17:10 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-08-20 19:54 ` Joel Sherrill
2007-08-22 1:29 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-16 19:55 ` H.J. Lu
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