Nytro Posted December 6, 2011 Report Posted December 6, 2011 [h=2]Executable and Linkable Format (ELF)[/h][TABLE][TR][TD]ABI[/TD][TD]Application binary interface[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]a.out[/TD][TD]Assembler output file format[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]BSS[/TD][TD]Block started by symbol. The uninitialized data segment containing statically-allocated variables.[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]COFF[/TD][TD]Common object file format[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]DTV[/TD][TD]Dynamic thread vector (for TLS)[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]DWARF[/TD][TD]A standardized debugging data format[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]GD[/TD][TD]Global Dynamic (dynamic TLS) One of the Thread-Local Storage access models.[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]GOT[/TD][TD]Global offset table[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]IE[/TD][TD]Initial Executable (static TLS with assigned offsets) One of the Thread-Local Storage access models.[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]LD[/TD][TD]Local Dynamic (dynamic TLS of local symbols) One of the Thread-Local Storage access models.[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]LE[/TD][TD]Local Executable (static TLS) One of the Thread-Local Storage access models.[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]Mach-O[/TD][TD]Mach object file format[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]PC[/TD][TD]Program counter. On x86, this is the same as IP (Instruction Pointer) register.[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]PE[/TD][TD]Portable executable[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]PHT[/TD][TD]Program header table[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]PIC[/TD][TD]Position independent code[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]PIE[/TD][TD]Position independent executable[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]PLT[/TD][TD]Procedure linkage table[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]RELRELA[/TD][TD]Relocation[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]RVA[/TD][TD]Relative virtual address[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]SHF[/TD][TD]Section header flag[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]SHT[/TD][TD]Section header table[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]SO[/TD][TD]Shared object (another name for dynamic link library)[/TD][/TR] [TR][TD]VMA[/TD][TD]Virtual memory area/address[/TD][/TR] [/TABLE] [h=2]Useful books and references[/h] ELF man page System V Application Binary Interface AMD64 System V Application Binary Interface The gen on function calling conventions Section II of Linux Standard Base 4.0 Core Specification Self-Service Linux: Mastering the Art of Problem Determination by Mark Wilding and Dan Behman Solaris Linker and Libraries Guide Linkers and Loaders by John Levine Understanding Linux ELF RTLD internals by mayhem (this article gives you an idea how the runtime linker ld.so works) ld.so man page Prelink by Jakub Jelinek (and prelink man page) Resurse:http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~charngda/elf.html Quote
