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From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: "Smets, Jan (Jan)" <jan.smets@alcatel-lucent.com>
Cc: "binutils@sourceware.org" <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Convert ELF with stabs to A.OUT
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120204053811.GB4832@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14C7F4F06DB5814AB0DE29716C4F6D671D85A420@FRMRSSXCHMBSB1.dc-m.alcatel-lucent.com>

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 05:38:27PM +0100, Smets, Jan (Jan) wrote:
> I'm wondering if there is a way to convert ELF executables with
> stabs debugging information to the older a.out format.

Translating executables is too difficult for objcopy.  Recompile and
relink.  If you don't have the source, then you've discovered one of
the reasons why open source is so nice.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

      reply	other threads:[~2012-02-04  5:38 UTC|newest]

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2012-02-03 16:38 Smets, Jan (Jan)
2012-02-04  5:38 ` Alan Modra [this message]

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