CTO

Short:        Converts a binary file to a linkable object
Author:       jgeiss@muc.de (Johannes Geiss)
Uploader:     jgeiss muc de (Johannes Geiss)
Type:         dev/c
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

Requires: Any C/Asm-linker
Version:  1.4

This command (CTO) converts any binary file to an linkable object so
you can link this binary data to your C/Asm-Code with any linker.

Example:

We have a binary file named "image.dat". It contains raw image data.
And we have a compiled object file named "prg.o" which uses our
raw datafield "image.dat".

We cannot link a raw binary file to an object file, so we have to convert
the raw file first with CTO:

	CTO image.dat image.o _image_start _image_end -d

Now we'll get a linkable object file named "image.o". The label
"_image_start" points to the beginning of the raw binary data and the
label "_image_end" points to the end. Now you can access the image
data in your program:

Asm:	xref _image_start
	xref _image_end

C:	extern char *image_start;
	extern char *image_end;

The switch "-d" converts the raw data to a HUNK_DATA and "-c" converts
to a HUNK_CODE.


Type "CTO ?" for more help.


Some additional info:

CTO is fully written in assembly and it's quite a bit old (1993 :-)
but I haven't the opportunity to upload to Aminet until now.

Have fun
Johannes Geiss