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From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: "'Daniel Jacobowitz'" <drow@false.org>,
	"'Francesco Casadei'" <francesco.casadei@gmail.com>
Cc: <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: RE: ELF executable relinking
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:23:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SERRANOjSeKg1bzuDwP0000012d@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050413160322.GA27861@nevyn.them.org>

----Original Message----
>From: Daniel Jacobowitz
>Sent: 13 April 2005 17:03

> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:50:33AM -0400, Francesco Casadei wrote:
>> Basically, I want to add new unrelated code to an existing ELF executable
>> ET_EXEC), by relinking it with a relocatable object (ET_REL).
>> Is it possible to input an executable and one or more relocatable
>> object to the link
>> editor and generate a new executable with code and data from all objects?
> 
> Generally no.


  That's why the non-relocatable link is also called a "final" link: it
tends to be fairly final!  (It discards information that would be needed to
link further object files in).


    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....

      reply	other threads:[~2005-04-13 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-13 15:50 Francesco Casadei
2005-04-13 16:04 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-04-13 16:23   ` Dave Korn [this message]

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