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Re: Difference between ELF & Binary

Ajay Jain wrote:
> 1. What are the differences between ELF & Binary file formats? [I know
> some, but I want to know all.] 

  Probably ``binary'' in your context means ``memory image'', i.e. the
same that ``objcopy -O binary'' produces.

> 2. Why do we need a loader for ELF and not for Binary.. ?
One would need a loader for everything, which needs to be loaded.  In
the case of ``binary'' files (memory images), the loaders is just very
simple - basically write the file content to a prescribed address.

~velco

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