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Date:      Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:21:57 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is Elf formatdocumented anywhere?
Message-ID:  <86r6gbmcfe.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <1200440766.478d45be80915@webmail.rawbw.com> (yuri@rawbw.com's message of "Tue\, 15 Jan 2008 15\:46\:06 -0800")
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Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> writes:
> Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> writes:
> > ELF is fairly well documented and standardized.
> No, I would say ELF is somewhat documented.

Do not confuse your inability or unwillingness to read a specification
with the absence of such a specification.

> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format
> These links only go that far.

Eh?  The Wikipedia article contains links to the complete specification
for both the machine-independent and machine-dependent portions of ELF,
as well as a number of third-party resources.

> > You can also read the elf(5) manpage in FreeBSD
> Not many details here too.

Compared to absolutely *no* detail from you.  The elf(5) manual page is
almost 900 lines long; I don't think it would be unfair to ask you to
write 9 lines (1%) explaining what it is you need that hasn't yet been
provided.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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