Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:40:12 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Co=EFdanSm=F8rgrav?= ) Cc: Yoav Cohen-Sivan <ycs@netvision.net.il>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Info on link-editing Message-ID: <199809161941.NAA04616@lariat.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpogsfzxks.fsf@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no> References: <Brett Glass's message of "Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:06:24 -0600"> <Yoav Cohen-Sivan's message of "Tue, 15 Sep 1998 18:31:03 %2B0300"> <35FE8837.E24C5AA1@netvision.net.il> <199809161807.MAA03821@lariat.lariat.org>
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Does FreeBSD use Elf? To my knowledge, it doesn't. --Brett At 09:06 PM 9/16/98 +0200, Dag-Erling CoïdanSmørgrav wrote: >Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> writes: >> At 07:39 PM 9/15/98 +0200, Dag-Erling CoïdanSmørgrav wrote: >> > Yoav Cohen-Sivan <ycs@netvision.net.il> writes: >> > > Can anyone point me to a good in-depth discussion of the link-editing and >> > > loading processes? I am looking for info on how the linker and >compiler use >> > > symbols and relocations to generate the various object files. >> > Use The Source, Luke! >> There should be some documentation for the binary and object formats >> independent of the source if it's to be anything like a "standard." >> One shouldn't have to look through the linker, AND the loader, AND >> the GNU C Compiler (which, in fact, you CAN'T look through unless >> you want your work to come under the nasty GPL). > >Yup. Should have used a smiley. But as others have pointed out, though >there is plenty of info available about the Elf binary format, the >linking process itself is not as well documented except in the source. > >DES >-- >Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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