[uClinux-dev] ELF and FLAT

From: Gopal Santhanam (gopal@eecs.berkeley.edu)
Date: Sun Nov 12 2000 - 12:33:22 EST

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Hi,

Can someone please explain clearly the difference between ELF and FLAT?
What happens when an ELF binary is converted to FLAT (elf2flt)?

Also, why do we use use FLAT binaries for uClinux?  It seems that the
target binaries are compiled PIC.  Why wouldn't ELF binaries work?

Thanks!
Gopal
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