Relocatable linking on x86-64 for i386

[Valery Reznic]

--- On Mon, 4/4/11, Ehud Karni <ehud at unix.mvs.co.il> wrote:

> From: Ehud Karni <ehud at unix.mvs.co.il>
> Subject: Re: Relocatable linking on x86-64 for i386
> To: gleb at minantech.com
> Cc: valery_reznic at yahoo.com, shachar at shemesh.biz, linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il
> Date: Monday, April 4, 2011, 5:21 PM
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 13:15:39 Gleb
> Natapov wrote:
> >
> > > > On 04/04/11 10:15, Valery Reznic wrote:
> > > > > Hello. I am trying to make relocatable
> linking on
> > > > x86-64 box for objects in format i386
> >
> > ld -m  elf_i386 -r file1.o file2.o -o output.o
> 
> If you use gcc for compiling you can do  gcc -m32
> <arguments>
> to compile and link.
> 
> In fact you can do: gcc -m32 file1.o file2.o -o output.o
I vaguely remember that I tried to use gcc instead of ld long time ago, but gcc gave me some trouble - may be link failed after that, may be run-time problems.

Anyway, thank you.

Valery.

> instead of calling ld directly.
> 
> Ehud.
> 
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