From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21131 invoked by alias); 4 Feb 2012 05:38:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 20977 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Feb 2012 05:38:31 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-pw0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-pw0-f41.google.com) (209.85.160.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:38:17 +0000 Received: by pbaa12 with SMTP id a12so3888212pba.0 for ; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:38:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.216.4 with SMTP id om4mr24025588pbc.19.1328333896911; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:38:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubble.grove.modra.org ([115.187.252.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o7sm18464570pbq.8.2012.02.03.21.38.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:38:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by bubble.grove.modra.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4E84F170C2EA; Sat, 4 Feb 2012 16:08:11 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:38:00 -0000 From: Alan Modra To: "Smets, Jan (Jan)" Cc: "binutils@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: Convert ELF with stabs to A.OUT Message-ID: <20120204053811.GB4832@bubble.grove.modra.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Smets, Jan (Jan)" , "binutils@sourceware.org" References: <14C7F4F06DB5814AB0DE29716C4F6D671D85A420@FRMRSSXCHMBSB1.dc-m.alcatel-lucent.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <14C7F4F06DB5814AB0DE29716C4F6D671D85A420@FRMRSSXCHMBSB1.dc-m.alcatel-lucent.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-02/txt/msg00036.txt.bz2 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