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To: David Quattlebaum <David.Quattlebaum@sas.com>
Subject: Re: modifying an object file 
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:14:00 EST."
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 13:16:54 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <5FA575D78630D3118B2E0090276DC89F01B59270@merc08.us.sas.com> David Quattlebaum writes:
: Has anyone accomplished this without having to dissect the ELF object, change it
: and reconstruct the pieces?

Change the string table.  This is the time honored way of kludging
binaries to do things that the original .o's were never intended to
do.

Warner


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