Is Elf formatdocumented anywhere?

Yuri yuri at rawbw.com
Tue Jan 15 15:46:07 PST 2008


> ELF is fairly well documented and standardized.
No, I would say ELF is somewhat documented.
> 
> Just googling for 'ELF' quickly yields the Wikipedia page
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format
> which contains several links to documents describing plenty of details.
These links only go that far. Googling many if not most of the constants
that are in /usr/include/sys/elf_common.h only gives some discussion
references.
> 
> You can also read the elf(5) manpage in FreeBSD
Not many details here too.

Yuri


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