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Date:      Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:10:17 +0100
From:      Marcin Cieslak <saper@system.pl>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is Elf formatdocumented anywhere?
Message-ID:  <fmk03f$9vb$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <1200440766.478d45be80915@webmail.rawbw.com>
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Yuri wrote:
>> ELF is fairly well documented and standardized.
> No, I would say ELF is somewhat documented.
>> Just googling for 'ELF' quickly yields the Wikipedia page
>>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format
>> which contains several links to documents describing plenty of details.
> These links only go that far. Googling many if not most of the constants
> that are in /usr/include/sys/elf_common.h only gives some discussion
> references.
>> You can also read the elf(5) manpage in FreeBSD
> Not many details here too.

For introductory material, please see the Linkers and Loaders book:

http://www.iecc.com/linker/

--Marcin




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