Best reference for understanding ELF format

[Szabolcs Nagy]

The 04/17/2021 07:31, Peng Yu via Libc-help wrote:
> That is a book. By definition, a book will not be complete since a
> book is not written for completeness?
> 
> For the best reference (as "reference" may have muliple meanings maybe
> I should use the word "spec" to avoid ambiguity), I found the
> following two documents. One is for 32-bit, the other is for 64-bit.
> Are they the most current ones? Other there any other documents that
> cover the things missed by them?
> 
> https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/elf/elf.pdf
> https://www.uclibc.org/docs/elf-64-gen.pdf

elf spec is part of the system v abi document.
the generic part is in
http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/
the processor specific part is published separately by
whoever does the tooling for the particular processor.

(all this can be found out by 5 minute research on wikipedia)

but since you asked for easy-to-follow and for
understanding elf i think the book is better.

> On 4/15/21, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On 15 Apr 2021 22:38, Peng Yu via Libc-help wrote:
> >> I am wondering what is the best reference for understanding ELF
> >> format. By best, I mean update-to-date, easy-to-following, and
> >> complete.
> >>
> >> Could anybody recommend references based on this criterion? Thanks.
> >
> > read "Linkers & Loaders" by John R. Levine
> > -mike
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Peng

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