Re: Problem with elf header

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Sandeep,

> > > Can anyone just tell me that why after reading the elf headers of the
> > > applications like gzip, bunzip2 on the x86 machines , the program
> > > entry point along with all other entries are zeros.

> I am trying to access the header with this piece of code,
> Its working fine for most of the executables but for the few above
> mentioned application, its returning zero.
>
>   Elf32_Ehdr* self = (Elf32_Ehdr *)0x8048000;
>     ptr=(int *)self->e_entry;

Why are you assuming that the header will always be at address 
0x80480000 ?  Perhaps for the applications you mention it is at some 
other address ?

Cheers
  Nick