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Command: elf2aout | Section: 1 | Source: NetBSD | File: elf2aout.1
ELF2AOUT(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual ELF2AOUT(1)
NAME
elf2aout - convert a NetBSD ELF-format executable to NetBSD a.out format
SYNOPSIS
elf2aout [-Os] elf-file aout-file
DESCRIPTION
Reads a fully-linked ELF executable (such as a linked kernel) and
produces an equivalent a.out format executable file.
The elf2aout utility is used to convert native NetBSD ELF binaries to
a.out format, for compatibility with bootblocks and kernel-reading
utilities like kvm(3), which currently expect an a.out format kernel.
The following options are available:
-O Produce OMAGIC instead of ZMAGIC binaries which is the default.
-s Preserve the symbol table.
SEE ALSO
elf2ecoff(1), ld(1), kvm(3), a.out(5), elf(5)
HISTORY
elf2aout was originally developed for NetBSD/pmax by Ted Lemon and was
first distributed with the pmax port of NetBSD 1.1.
BUGS
elf2aout assumes there are no multiply-referenced symbols in the input
ELF symbol section. It may be necessary to link with -x to avoid such
duplicate symbols.
In some environments, the GNU binutils objcopy(1) utility may be a better
solution than elf2aout.
FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 September 30, 1996 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8