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Re: PATCH: Add updelfhdr

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well, we do have 2 ELF specific programs in binutils: readelf and gold.
>>
>> I only want to update ELF header, nothing else. ?objcopy basically will
>> rewrite the whole ELF file. Sometimes it fails, especially when the input isn't
>> generated by the GNU linker. updelfhdr doesn't have such a problem.
>
> Well, that's a point or a bug ;-)
>

Sometimes that won't get things done :-). That is one reason why I wrote
updelfhdr. It works on all ELF input files no matter who generated them.

I will include it in my Linux binutils if it won't be in the FSF binutils.

Thanks.


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H.J.
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