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amule: modified MuleDebug.cpp for libbfd-2.37
author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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date | Sat Mar 19 15:22:11 2022 +0100 (2022-03-19) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/elfkickers/description.txt Sat Mar 19 15:22:11 2022 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ 1.4 +This is a collection of programs that are generally unrelated, except in 1.5 +that they all deal with ELF files. 1.6 + 1.7 +The main purpose of these programs is to be illustrative and educational 1.8 +-- to help fellow programmers understand ELF files and something of how 1.9 +they work under the Linux platform. 1.10 + 1.11 +Each program is independent. There is very little shared code between them, 1.12 +and in fact they all take slightly different approaches to handling ELF files. 1.13 + 1.14 +The package includes: 1.15 + 1.16 +* sstrip: a small utility that removes a few bytes from an executable that 1.17 + strip leaves behind. 1.18 +* elftoc: a program that takes an ELF file and generates C code that defines 1.19 + a struct with the same memory image, using the structs and preprocessor 1.20 + symbols defined in <elf.h>. 1.21 +* elfls: a utility that displays an ELF file's program or section header tables, 1.22 + which serve as a kind of global roadmap to the file's contents. 1.23 +* rebind: a small utility that alters the binding of selected symbols in an 1.24 + object file.