[Gllug] ELF, LSB [...] , stripped
Nix
nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Sun Oct 20 18:14:14 UTC 2002
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Pete Ryland spake:
> the so-called 'a.out'
> format (of origin unknown to me... minix-based?)
Much older than that. It wasn't a format inasmuch as a lump of binary
data and conventions about how to use this mess to build shared
libraries (which was most unpleasant).
ELF, on the other hand, *is* a properly designed format, and a damned
nice one too. Much nicer than that COFF monster.
is still actually supported
> by the kernel in case you have any binary-only stuff still around.
>
>> - LSB I don't know what it means, a type of executable perhaps ?
>
> as said, little-endian. that is, least-significant bit first. other
> possibility is MSB i.e. big-endian. for more info about endianness, see
> http://www.google.com/search?q=endianness&btnI=yes
Quite so. Example, from an UltraSPARC:
/bin/ls: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, SPARC32PLUS, V8+ Required, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.19, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
note the `MSB'.
>> - version 1 (SYSV) - no idea
>
> i guess there's only been one version of the ELF format so far?
Yep.
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