Re: [Elftoolchain-developers] elfcopy vs objcopy

[Ed M. <em...@fr...>]

On 27 July 2015 at 15:02, Kai Wang <kai...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
> elfcopy was among the first tools we implemented in the toolchain and we
> thought we could name it elfcopy since we planned to only support ELF
> format.
> Then later when we implemented other tools we figured the "elf" prefix seems
> to be inappropriate, but we were too lazy to change it back.
>
> elfcopy now supports srex, ihex, binary formats etc, and I plan to add PE
> support also.
> So it's more or less a misnomer now... anyway I think it's ok we install it
> as objcopy
> under FreeBSD.

Kai, thanks for the information.

I'll go ahead with the change, which installs as objcopy by default
only on arm64 right now (since the GNU objcopy in FreeBSD base does
not have arm64 support), and enable it by default on all platforms
once all required functionality is implemented. As far as I know PE
support is the only blocking issue -- we need it to produce the x86
UEFI boot bits.