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From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
To: Matheus Afonso Martins Moreira <matheus.a.m.moreira@gmail.com>,
	binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Appending program headers to existing ELFs?
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 08:51:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e0b6078a-5e79-4b4e-a424-24cba5d8892d@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c5b186e052b1ff9f24aeb8384bfaac1e.matheus.a.m.moreira@gmail.com>

Hi Matheus,

> In concrete terms:
> 
> I'm building a small programming language interpreter
> and would like to add support for embedding programs
> into the executable. My intention is to treat the
> embedded programs section as an additional load path
> for libraries and modules as well as the main function.

Couldn't your interpreter be a library (shared or static)
and then all that a programmer would need to do is to
include your library along with their code when they perform
a link of their own ?

Cheers
   Nick



  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-16  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-13 14:19 Matheus Afonso Martins Moreira
2023-11-14 12:47 ` Nick Clifton
2023-11-15  1:26   ` Matheus Afonso Martins Moreira
2023-11-16  8:51     ` Nick Clifton [this message]
2023-11-17  8:05       ` Fangrui Song

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