Meanwhile, seeing what @marcan42 just did...
Having a Mach-O header present through a linker script for an _ELF_ linker is… let’s say quite unique.
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I don't think this is the first time i've seen this kind of hack. Pretty sure some Linux distros used to build EFI apps by slapping a PE header on an ELF and embedding some code which processed ELF relocations
devkitPPC was doing it on the Wii/GameCube for ages to build DOL executables, but I *got rid* of that hack because it was poorly implemented and replaced it with an ELF to DOL converter because that made more sense.
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What we found was that people were using the ELFs directly with our loader, but those ELFs were *not* intended to be used directly since they embedded the DOL header, which was going into an area of memory that should've been reserved.
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We ended up rejecting those at some point after I added sanity checks to our ELF loader and a lot of people hated us for breaking their software :-) (They could recompile with a newer toolchain that didn't do that, or just convert to DOL with objcopy - we support DOL)
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