RDF2BIN(1)

rdf2bin, rdf2com 💅

okay bestie, welcome to RDF2BIN(1) — a lil Debian manual page that's here to convert an RDOFF object file into a flat binary. yes she's niche. yes she's iconic. let's go 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

rdf2bin, rdf2com — convert an RDOFF object file to flat binary 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

rdf2bin [-o relocation-origin] [-p segment-alignment] [-f format] input-file output-file
rdf2com [-p segment-alignment] input-file output-file
rdf2ith [-o relocation-origin] [-p segment-alignment] input-file output-file
rdf2srec [-o relocation-origin] [-p segment-alignment] input-file output-file

so like, four whole aliases, four whole vibes, one very specific job 💖

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -o relocation-origin — Relocate at origin relocation-origin. and here's the tea ☕: if you invoke this as rdf2com, the default relocation origin is 0x100. Otherwise? the default origin is 0. not me picking different defaults depending on what you named the binary 🙈
• -p segment-alignment — Pad segments until their size is a multiple of segment-alignment. the default is 16, and she is NOT changing her mind unless you ask nicely 🌸
• -f format — Specify the output format. the formats she currently supports are:
  • binary (bin)
  • DOS COM (binary with origin 0x100) (com)
  • Intel hex (ith or ihx)
  • Motorola S-Records (srec)

if you don't specify one, the format gets set by the command name. iykyk 💅

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✨ AUTHORS ✨

Julian Hall <jules@earthcorp.com>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>. 🫶

This manual page was written by Matej Vela <vela@debian.org>.

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✨ BUGS ✨

This utility currently only supports the classic segments .text, .data and .bss. that's it. that's the whole list. no .rodata, no extra segments, no main character energy for anything else 😭

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and that's the page, bestie! this one came from the Debian Project, dated September 6, 1999, and honestly she's been serving flat binaries since before most of us could walk. periodt. 👑🌈💜