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Asked: 2026-05-25T23:41:55+00:00

As in title. I tried reading the BFD’s ELF’s code, but it’s rather not

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As in title. I tried reading the BFD’s ELF’s code, but it’s rather not a light reading. I also tried to get something from the documentation, but I would need an example to see how it works. Could anyone point me some easier example for me, to know how to define an executable format?

Edit: Looks like I didn’t formulate the question properly. I don’t ask “how to create own executable format specification?”, nor “where is good ELF documentation?”, but “how can I implement my own executable format using GNU BFD?”.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You did look here http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.21/bfd/index.html and here http://sourceware.org/binutils/binutils-porting-guide.txt?

    Also studying the MMO implementation of a BFD backend as mentioned here http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.21/bfd/mmo.html#mmo (source: http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/bfd/mmo.c?cvsroot=src) might be less complex than starting with ELF … 😉

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