How to generate relocatable executables?

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From: Neil Russell
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1993 05:32

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I'm writing a program that needs to be able to load executable images
at an address that is decided at load time.

I imagine the solution to be another output format for gld (bfd), that
generates a very simple binary format that includes relocation information,
and a simple loader that malloc's some memory then relocates the binary
into it.

Does something like this exist?  If not, could someone give me some pointers
on how to write it?


Thanks,
	Neil Russell
	caret@c-side.com
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Neil Russell <caret@rahul.net>

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