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Re: Binutils docs
Hey
Sorry for late reply but those docs you send me is what i was looking
for i wanted a more general overview on binary formats i guess.
http://calderasystems.com/developers/devspecs/abi386-4.pdf
this link was pretty useful, i just want to get up to speed with these
things, since i don't really know much about actual binaries i sort of
just let gcc do that for me the past few years :P
Anyways thanks loads
-Phil
2009/3/27 Kai Ruottu <kai.ruottu@wippies.com>:
> Philip Herron wrote:
>
>> Just a quick question do any of you guys know any good reading for
>> binutils besides the documenation given with it like maby a book on
>> binary formats like elf and a.out; and creating them from assembly or
>> RTL, maby a book on assemblers and linkers is what i am looking for.
>
> It would help a lot if one could know to which things these are
> related... ?It could be expected that people have learned that
> the ELF format came with "Unix System V Rel 4" and Unix and Unix-
> like systems like Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD have adopted this
> same format, so a simple search with "System V ABI" could lead
> to many documents... Like :
>
> http://calderasystems.com/developers/devspecs/abi386-4.pdf
>
> (the search gave a 'https://' URL)
>
> For the early BSD 'aout' and SVR3.2 'COFF' format (the basement in
> Windoze's 'PE' format) probably similar searches could give results.
>
>