8 ELF output module

This chapter describes the ELF output module which can be selected with the ‘-Felf’ option.

8.1 Legal

This module is written in 2002-2016 by Frank Wille and is covered by the vasm copyright without modifications.

8.2 Additional options for this module

‘-keepempty’

Do not delete empty sections without any symbol definition.

8.3 General

This output module outputs the ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) format, which is a portable object file format and works for a variety of 32- and 64-bit operating systems.

8.4 Restrictions

The ELF output format, as implemented in vasm, currently supports the following architectures:

• - ARM
• - i386
• - Jaguar RISC
• - M68k
• - PowerPC
• - x86_64

The supported relocation types depend on the selected architecture.

8.5 Known Problems

Some known problems of this module at the moment:

• - None.

8.6 Error Messages

This module has the following error messages:

• - 3002: output module doesn’t support cpu <name>
• - 3003: write error
• - 3005: reloc type <m>, size <n>, mask <mask> (symbol <sym> + <offset>) not supported
• - 3006: reloc type <n> not supported
• - 3010: section <%s>: alignment padding (%lu) not a multiple of %lu at 0x%llx