From: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
To: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com>
Cc: libc-help <libc-help@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Best reference for understanding ELF format
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:29:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210419072902.GB9028@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABrM6w=+4UVf0h7ZyOPBE6rxEMoL5+eLrm6Nu7whPGPZhho+jw@mail.gmail.com>
The 04/17/2021 07:31, Peng Yu via Libc-help wrote:
> That is a book. By definition, a book will not be complete since a
> book is not written for completeness?
>
> For the best reference (as "reference" may have muliple meanings maybe
> I should use the word "spec" to avoid ambiguity), I found the
> following two documents. One is for 32-bit, the other is for 64-bit.
> Are they the most current ones? Other there any other documents that
> cover the things missed by them?
>
> https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/elf/elf.pdf
> https://www.uclibc.org/docs/elf-64-gen.pdf
elf spec is part of the system v abi document.
the generic part is in
http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/
the processor specific part is published separately by
whoever does the tooling for the particular processor.
(all this can be found out by 5 minute research on wikipedia)
but since you asked for easy-to-follow and for
understanding elf i think the book is better.
> On 4/15/21, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On 15 Apr 2021 22:38, Peng Yu via Libc-help wrote:
> >> I am wondering what is the best reference for understanding ELF
> >> format. By best, I mean update-to-date, easy-to-following, and
> >> complete.
> >>
> >> Could anybody recommend references based on this criterion? Thanks.
> >
> > read "Linkers & Loaders" by John R. Levine
> > -mike
> >
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Peng
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-19 7:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-16 3:38 Peng Yu
2021-04-16 3:47 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-04-17 12:31 ` Peng Yu
2021-04-19 7:29 ` Szabolcs Nagy [this message]
2021-04-19 7:53 ` Florian Weimer
2021-04-20 1:58 ` Peng Yu
2021-04-20 7:08 ` tomas
2021-04-20 13:19 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-04-20 13:40 ` Peng Yu
2021-04-20 14:18 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-04-20 15:12 ` Peng Yu
2021-04-20 16:39 ` Jeffrey Walton
2021-04-20 16:51 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-04-21 3:19 ` Peng Yu
2021-04-20 17:55 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-04-20 18:01 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-04-20 8:14 ` Jeffrey Walton
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