[LLVMdev] Binutils and LLVM - gathering information

[Alex Rosenberg]

On Nov 6, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Michael Spencer <bigcheesegs at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Marshall Clow <mclow.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Binutils and LLVM
....
>> * objcopy (Copies and translates object files) -- ???
> 
> This one is hard, as translating object files between formats doesn't
> really make sense with modern formats. I believe the main
> functionality people use is converting object files to flat binaries.

This is also used to embed CellSPU binaries inside PPC ELF files so they can be referenced, loaded, and run.

Alex