58 lines
1.6 KiB
Groff
58 lines
1.6 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright 1996 The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford
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.\" Junior University. All Rights Reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Author: Jonathan Stone
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.\"
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.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
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.\" software and its documentation for any purpose and without
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.\" fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright
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.\" notice and the above authorship notice appear in all copies.
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.\" Stanford University makes no representations about the suitability
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.\" of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without
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.\" express or implied warranty.
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.Dd September 30, 1996
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.Dt ELF2ECOFF 1
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.Os NetBSD 1.2
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm elf2ecoff
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.Nd convert a NetBSD ELF-format executable to NetBSD a.out format
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm elf2ecoff
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.Ar elf-file
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.Ar ecoff-file
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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Reads a fully-linked ELF executable (such as a linked kernel)
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and produces an equivalent ECOFF format executable file.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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utility is used to convert native NetBSD ELF binaries
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to a.out format, for compatibility with DECstation diskless-boot
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PROM code and diskless-boot servers that require ECOFF format binaries.
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.Pp
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.\" .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
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.Pp
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr elf2aout 1 ,
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.Xr ld 1 ,
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.Xr a.out 5 ,
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.Xr elf 5 ,
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.Xr kvm 3 ,
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.Xr kvm_mkdb 8 .
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.Sh BUGS
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.Nm
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assumes there are no multiply-referenced symbols in the input ELF symbol
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section. It may be necessary to link with
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.Fl x
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to avoid duplicate symbols.
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.Pp
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In some environments, the GNU binutils
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.Xr objcopy 1
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utility may be a better solution than
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.Nm "" .
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.Sh HISTORY
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.Nm
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was originally developed for NetBSD/pmax by Ted Lemon
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and was first distributed with the pmax port of
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.Nx 1.1 .
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