import sys # For some baffling reason IAMCU sets the instruction set architecture # in the ELF header to 0x06 instead of 0x03 even though it is just # 386 code. This gives QEMU fits. Hack it! fd = open(sys.argv[1], "r+b") fd.seek(0x12) # Write 0x03 which is EM_386 to e_machine fd.write(b'\x03') fd.close()