Object file formats, compilers and linkers

[Bo Thorsen]

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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