Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 17:28:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: jdp@polstra.com Cc: abial@nask.pl, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF broke crunchgen/crunchide Message-ID: <199809042228.RAA15563@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <199809031639.JAA02670@austin.polstra.com> (message from John Polstra on Thu, 03 Sep 1998 09:39:45 -0700) References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809031151070.3219-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> <199809031639.JAA02670@austin.polstra.com>
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>> Today I tried to use crunchgen, and it fails miserably, because it plays >> directly with a.out format. I guess we need to teach it about elves... >> I could do with some pointers to the ELF format and the way ld shuffles >> symbols - then I'd try to fix it, and probably then I'd cry for more >> help... :-) > As far I know, the original published ELF specs are out of print. I > can help you with it. Briefly, an ELF file consists of: Intel has them online, and I will write that man page I promised if it's useful (although an info file may be better). Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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