On 05/20/2010 05:44 PM, Mark Ainsworth wrote: > Hello, at link time I would like to include the contents of a binary > file into the output executable, in a separate segment. In my code I > would then read this as an array. I've done this before with other > compilers / linkers, but not with gcc. Can you show me the directives > to do this? I'm not aware of any gcc directive to do it. I think objcopy can read a binary and then make a section of it. See the --rename-section section in the objcopy manual. Like this: objcopy -I binary -O elf64-x86-64 --rename-section .data=.mydata,alloc,load,readonly,data,contents file.txt foo.o Andrew.
