See also: objcopy. https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/binutils/objcopy.html

boricj · 2024-08-22T15:29:14 1724340554

While objcopy can do many things, it can't undo the work of the linker. If relocations aren't unapplied and a new relocation table generated, these spots inside the new object file will reference the original program's address space, leading to some exotic undefined behavior.

Delinking is a subject with very few resources online, but there are a couple of other tools for it out there:

  - https://github.com/endrazine/wcc

  - https://github.com/jonwil/unlinkerida

  - https://github.com/jnider/delinker