From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 3 02:24:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA25478 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 02:24:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m2-27-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA25447 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 02:23:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id MAA15238; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 12:20:40 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199812031020.MAA15238@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: ELF documentation In-Reply-To: from Chuck Robey at "Dec 2, 98 08:47:52 pm" To: chuckr@mat.net (Chuck Robey) Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 12:20:37 +0200 (SAT) Cc: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Robey wrote: > On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Richard Tobin wrote: > > > Where can I find documentation of the new ELF executable file format? > > What I want is the ELF equivalent of "man 5 a.out", but it doesn't > > seem to exist. > > That works fine here. Maybe your manpath.config is all messed up? There's an elf(5) man page? > > > > > I'm trying to convert programs that load in .o files and write themselves > > out as new executables (lisp and prolog systems). You can pick up a copy of the ELF specification, as part of the Tool Interface Standards, at ftp://ftp.intel.com/pub/tis/elf11g.zip -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message