ELF file headers

Question

A quick question about elf file headers, I can\'t seem to find anything useful on how to add/change fields in the elf header. I\'d like to be able to change the magic numbers an

Answer 1

I don't know of linker script commands that can do this, but you can do it post-link using the objcopy command. The --add-section option can be used to add a section containing arbitrary data to the ELF file. If the ELF header doesn't contain the fields you want, just make a new section and add them there.