From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 4 15:30:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17130 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 15:30:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA17059 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 15:29:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-57.camalott.com [208.229.74.57]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA07827; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 17:30:30 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA15563; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 17:28:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 17:28:33 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199809042228.RAA15563@detlev.UUCP> To: jdp@polstra.com CC: abial@nask.pl, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199809031639.JAA02670@austin.polstra.com> (message from John Polstra on Thu, 03 Sep 1998 09:39:45 -0700) Subject: Re: ELF broke crunchgen/crunchide From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199809031639.JAA02670@austin.polstra.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> Today I tried to use crunchgen, and it fails miserably, because it plays >> directly with a.out format. I guess we need to teach it about elves... >> I could do with some pointers to the ELF format and the way ld shuffles >> symbols - then I'd try to fix it, and probably then I'd cry for more >> help... :-) > As far I know, the original published ELF specs are out of print. I > can help you with it. Briefly, an ELF file consists of: Intel has them online, and I will write that man page I promised if it's useful (although an info file may be better). Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message