Ld : _start address ?

[Ramana Radhakrishnan]

The loader does take the entry point address from e_entry in the
elf_header. This is the actual entry point for the program . When are
you doing this overwriting ?

cheers
Ramana

On 12/29/05, Sandeep Kumar <sandeepksinha@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> Can somebody please tell me where does the loader takes the program
> entry point address from. Its not e_entry of the elf header coz even
> after overwriting it with some other valid address , the flow of
> control doesn't changes.
> Does the loader takes the address of _start from the symbol table ?
> Then what in the case of stripped binaries.
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> Please help.
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> Regards,
> Sandeep
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Ramana Radhakrishnan