2008/198: elfwrap - wrap data in an ELF file

Rod Evans Rod.Evans at sun.com
Mon Mar 17 11:23:21 PDT 2008


Roland Mainz wrote:
> Rod Evans wrote:
>> I'm sponsoring the following case for myself.   This case qualifies for
>> Architectural self-review, but I wish to record the following
>> information.
>>
> [snip]
>>   User Commands                                         elfwrap(1)
>>
>>   NAME
>>       elfwrap - wrap data in an ELF file
>>
>>   SYNOPSIS
>>       elfdump [-64] [-o relobj-file] [-z target=sparc | x86]
>>       data-file...
> 
> Shouldn't this be "elfwrap" instead of "elfdump" ? :-)

Yes.  Mr. Plocher already beat you to it.  Guess what man page template
I used :-)

> 
>>   DESCRIPTION
> [snip]
>>       The basename(1) of each data file is used to create  various
>>       pieces  of  ELF information.  For example, if the input data
>>       file is  ISV/isv-data,  the  following  ELF  information  is
>>       created within the relocatable object.
> 
> What about adding an option to override "basename" with a different
> string ?

Anything is possible.  Initially, I strived for simplicity.

-- 

Rod.



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