From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 14 10:10:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mimer.webgiro.com [212.209.29.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD009156AE for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 09:54:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id 0A41C2DC07; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:54:10 +0100 (CET) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9E5A47811; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:55:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9991910E10; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:55:01 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:55:01 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Josef Karthauser Cc: James Howard , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libelf and Elf Interface Routines In-Reply-To: <20000114140138.O74467@florence.pavilion.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 08:34:15AM -0500, James Howard wrote: > > I was playing with a program written for Solaris to see if I could port it > > to FreeBSD (another learning experience thing;). The program uses > > Solaris's libelf to talk to Elf files. It does this quite extensively in > > fact. Does FreeBSD provide a similar interface? Poking around the man > > pages has revealed nothing but I wanted to ask before I gave up. If no > > interface is currently provided, is there one currently being planned? > > > > Thank you, Jamie > > The elf(5) manual page may be a good place to start. (It's on modern > versions of FreeBSD). > > We don't have a libelf though. Does libbfd provide the functionality you need? (see gdb sources). Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message