Re: About ELF format

Jie Zhang <zhangjie@magima.com.cn>
6 Jun 2004 15:10:05 -0400

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From: Jie Zhang <zhangjie@magima.com.cn>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 6 Jun 2004 15:10:05 -0400
Organization: Bentium Ltd. (CN99)
References: 04-05-098
Keywords: linker
Posted-Date: 06 Jun 2004 15:10:05 EDT

Vinay wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have a little doubt regarding the ELF file. Here is a Hex snap shot
> of an ELF file compiled using GCC on RH linux 9.0 (X86). ...

Yes, I think you interpreted the ELF header correctly. e_shoff in the
ELF header is 0x4F08, but the section header table does not start at
this offset of the file. In ELF, the section header for index 0 is
reserved for SHN_UNDEF and should be all zeros. It's very likely that
the section table starts at offset 0x4F14. You may modify the file and
use readelf to see if it produce a reasonable output.

You may file a bug report in http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/ with
the information about how this problem can be reproduced.

Jie

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