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.Dd September 30, 1996 .Dt ELF2ECOFF 1 .Os NetBSD 1.2 .Sh NAME .Nm elf2ecoff Why doesn't this work right? mdoc(7) nor mdoc.samples(7) lists
.Nd, except for a passing reference in the latter.
.Nd convert a NetBSD ELF-format executable to NetBSD a.out format .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm elf2ecoff elf-file ecoff-file .Sh DESCRIPTION Reads a fully-linked ELF executable (such as a linked kernel) and produces an equivalent ECOFF format executable file.
p The .Nm elf2ecoff utility is used to convert native NetBSD ELF binaries to a.out format, for compatibility with DECstation diskless-boot PROM code and diskless-boot servers that require ECOFF format binaries.
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.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
p .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr elf2aout 1 , .Xr ld 1 , .Xr a.out 5 , .Xr elf 5 , .Xr kvm 3 , .Xr kvm_mkdb 8 . .Sh BUGS .Nm Elf2ecoff assumes there are no multiply-referenced symbols in the input ELF symbol section. It may be necessary to link with .Nm -x to avoid duplicate symbols.
p In some environments, the GNU binutils .Nm objcopy utility may be a better solution than .Nm elf2ecoff . .Sh HISTORY .Nm Elf2ecoff was originally developed for NetBSD/pmax by Ted Lemon and was first distributed with the pmax port of .Nx 1.1 .
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