The final images produced by compilers include both a bin file and an ELF (Extended Loader Format) file. What is the difference between the two, and what is the utility of the ELF file?

Aug 6, 2014 · ELF is the Executable and Linkable Format, the file format for executables, libraries and object files used by most operating systems that aren't Windows or OS X.

How are ELF files generated? is it the compiler responsibility? They can be generated by a compiler, an assembler, or any other tool that can generate them. Even your own program you wrote for …

Nov 8, 2018 · file ./out/main.o: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Atmel AVR 8-bit, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped file ./out/main.elf: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Atmel AVR 8-bit, version 1 (SYSV), statically …

Oct 10, 2014 · Just curious. This obviously isn't a very good solution for actual programming, but say I wanted to make an executable in Bless (a hex editor). My architecture is x86. What's a very simple …

Jun 10, 2014 · Extract detailed symbol information (struct members) from elf file compiled with ARM-GCC Asked 11 years, 6 months ago Modified 7 years, 9 months ago Viewed 20k times

Jan 16, 2013 · The segments contain information that is necessary for runtime execution of the file, while sections contain important data for linking and relocation. Any byte in the entire file can be owned by …

Apr 6, 2018 · After compilation, the *.elf file is converted to *.hex. CRC value is added in *.hex file via srec_cat application. Now the *.hex file is converted to *.bin. The BIN file is then stored on a USB …

I want to get the source code path & source names from through an ELF file that was compiled with debugging information (gcc -g). The .debug_str section contains what I need, but how can I extr...

Jun 27, 2013 · Maybe it's a misleading default of GCC to put the object code into a file called a.out when no explicit output file name is specified, but if you run the file command on a.out, you'll find out that …