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From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM>
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Please Help Me Understand dlopen()]
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In article <33FA585D.167EB0E7.kithrup.freebsd.hackers@whistle.com> you write:
>John, what are the chances of being able to link a binary from
>mixed a.out and elf .o files?
>And what are the chances of being able to generate both types
>with just a single switch differnt in the command line?

With the wonders of BFD, all things are possible!

Well, nearly all, anyway.  Given BFD support for the a.out and ELF formats
for FreeBSD, ld can accept both, and produce either.  In binutils is a
utility that can convert from pretty much any format to any other.  (Wanna
run S-records directly?  Can do!)

Note that this would require using the GNU binutilies.