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ELF2AOUT(1)		  BSD General Commands Manual		   ELF2AOUT(1)

NAME
     elf2aout — convert a NetBSD ELF-format executable to NetBSD a.out format

SYNOPSIS
     elf2aout elf-file aout-file

DESCRIPTION
     Reads a fully-linked ELF executable (such as a  linked kernel) and pro‐
     duces an equivalent a.out format executable file.

     The elf2aout utility is used to convert native NetBSD ELF binaries to
     a.out format, for compatibility with bootblocks and kernel-reading utili‐
     ties like kvm(3) and kvm_mkdb(8), which currently expect an a.out format
     kernel.

SEE ALSO
     elf2ecoff(1), ld(1), kvm(3), a.out(5), elf(5), kvm_mkdb(8)

HISTORY
     elf2aout was originally developed for NetBSD/pmax by Ted Lemon and was
     first distributed with the pmax port of NetBSD 1.1.

BUGS
     elf2aout assumes there are no multiply-referenced symbols in the input
     ELF symbol section.  It may be necessary to link with -x to avoid such
     duplicate symbols.

     In some environments, the GNU binutils objcopy(1) utility may be a better
     solution than elf2aout.

BSD			      September 30, 1996			   BSD

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