I may not be asking this in the correct place, but is there somewhere I can research what the structure of an executable binary files is? As in, how the code is organized, where the symbols are stored, etc.
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I may not be asking this in the correct place, but is there somewhere I can research what the structure of an executable binary files is? As in, how the code is organized, where the symbols are stored, etc.
Depends on what platform you’re interested in!
Windows uses the PE binary format.
Linux uses ELF.
Mac OS (and iOS) use Mach-O.
Some older UNIX systems use a.out.