Re: [suse-programming-e] Elf documentation?

"Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@globalsymmetry.com>:

I'm trying to get an overview of elf, and I'm not sure what I should be looking at.

A pdf of an older version of the ELF standard is here: http://www.tachyonsoft.com/elf.pdf I'd propose to start at http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generi... and then following the links.

I just installed libelf, but I'm not sure what this will do for me.

libelf allows you to read elf binaries. This allows simple info, like what architecture the binary was compiled for or complex applications like ltrace which uses and manipulates loaded binaries to accomplish its tracing. Philipp