From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 21 15:22:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EA9316A569 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:22:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40F4513C448 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:22:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896A52083; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:21:57 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Tests: AWL X-Spam-Learn: disabled X-Spam-Score: -0.2/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on tim.des.no Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 798F92049; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:21:57 +0100 (CET) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5E1DD8449D; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:21:57 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Yuri References: <1200437163.478d37abc422c@webmail.rawbw.com> <20080115231958.GA64002@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <1200440766.478d45be80915@webmail.rawbw.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:21:57 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1200440766.478d45be80915@webmail.rawbw.com> (yuri@rawbw.com's message of "Tue\, 15 Jan 2008 15\:46\:06 -0800") Message-ID: <86r6gbmcfe.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is Elf formatdocumented anywhere? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:22:07 -0000 Yuri writes: > Erik Trulsson writes: > > ELF is fairly well documented and standardized. > No, I would say ELF is somewhat documented. Do not confuse your inability or unwillingness to read a specification with the absence of such a specification. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format > These links only go that far. Eh? The Wikipedia article contains links to the complete specification for both the machine-independent and machine-dependent portions of ELF, as well as a number of third-party resources. > > You can also read the elf(5) manpage in FreeBSD > Not many details here too. Compared to absolutely *no* detail from you. The elf(5) manual page is almost 900 lines long; I don't think it would be unfair to ask you to write 9 lines (1%) explaining what it is you need that hasn't yet been provided. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no