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RE: Object file formats, compilers and linkers
- To: David Korn <dkorn at pixelpower dot com>
- Subject: RE: Object file formats, compilers and linkers
- From: Bo Thorsen <bo at suse dot de>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:30:47 +0100 (CET)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, David Korn wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Jeff Sturm [mailto:jeff.sturm@appnet.com]
>
> >Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> >> > Is there some kind of easy to read (i.e. plain English)
> >> > documentation on various object and executable file formats, for the
> >> > novice?
> >>
> >> There's a very good book on this subject, called Linkers & Loaders (or
> >> something alike), but I heard it's out of print :-(
> >
> >I hope not... it was just published in 1999. John Levine is
> >the author. A very good book. (Isn't this OT?)
>
> ObTopic: Aren't there IIRC some handy links to object file format specs.
> on the 'readings' page in the gcc website? (I don't know the URL offhand).
You can find the ABI papers for System V (i386 and x86-64) on
http://www.x86-64.org/documentation
These papers include elf documentation.
Bo.
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