Top "Elf" questions

ELF stands for Executable and Linkable Format, a file format for files containing machine code.

dumping C structure sizes from ELF object file

How can you extract the sizes of all C structures from an ELF object file with debugging symbols? Individual struct …

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Does gcc have any options to add version info in ELF binary file?

I mean whether gcc can insert some source code version infor into ELF binary as section or something similar. I …

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How are the different segments like heap, stack, text related to the physical memory?

When a C program is compiled and the object file(ELF) is created. the object file contains different sections such …

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Forcing a binary to use a specific (newer) version of a shared library (.so)

I have an older binary executable (utserver, closed source) that I'm trying to run on a system running Fedora 22. utserver …

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What is the difference between executable and relocatable in elf format?

What is the difference between executable file in elf format and relocatable file in elf format?

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How to convert PE(Portable Executable) format to ELF in linux

What's the best tool for converting PE binaries to ELF binaries? Following is a brief motivation for this question: Suppose …

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.bss vs COMMON: what goes where?

From my book: .bss: Uninitialized global C variables COMMON: Uninitalized data objects that are not yet allocated I have to …

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Why is the entry point address in my executable 0x8048330? (0x330 being the offset of .text section)

I wrote a small program to add two integers and on using readelf -a executable_name it showed the entry …

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What is the difference between .got and .got.plt section?

What is the difference between .got and .got.plt section in ELF format?

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Reading the contents of an ELF section(programmatically)

I am trying to retrieve the contents of an additional section within an ELF binary. At this point, I'm using …

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