On 22/12/17 5:07 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote> At least at the moment all RTEMS targets use ELF. I removed all non-ELF support > in Binutils for obsolete RTEMS targets in January 2017.
Sure, but I am not sure how this relates to the discussion. > It would be nice to have the ELF headers in RTEMS (or Newlib) also for simple > bootloaders. I do not understand. The libdl code understands ELF and ELF headers now [1]. It does not keep a copy of the header in memory ready for a single call and I would discourage us doing that. The standard is careful to ensure the format of the images being loaded is _not_ specified and this is the correct thing for a standard to do. It allows custom formats to exist and RAP is one which libdl supports. The fact the non-portable call references ELF details is a shame and needs to be considered and factored into any solution we have. The call's struct is not standardised between Linux and FreeBSD so any dependent code is not portable so why do ELF structs need to be present in our version? Chris [1] https://git.rtems.org/rtems/tree/cpukit/libdl/include/sys/exec_elf.h _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/users
