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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:40:12 -0600
To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Co=EFdanSm=F8rgrav?= )
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: Info on link-editing
Cc: Yoav Cohen-Sivan <ycs@netvision.net.il>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.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


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