[ros-dev] ELF mapping support for ntoskrnl, for anybody who is interested (untested)

[emild at cs.technion.ac.il]

Many interesting things about ELF, including program loading and interpreter
stuff loading can be found  here:

http://www.x86.org/ftp/manuals/tools/elf.pdf

                                                 Emil




Quoting "KJK::Hyperion" <noog at libero.it>:

> At 11.46 27/11/2004, you wrote:
> >>I doubt we'll need this. I'll try to add support for querying the 
> >>interpreter name, but I don't think we really need this for Win32. POSIX 
> >>maybe (hence a way to query an ELF image section for the interpreter 
> >>name), but for Win32 I think we're stretching it enough at supporting ELF 
> >>at all. Then again I don't really know what runtime linkers are for
> >Hi, is the ELF "interpreter name" what in PE images is the subsystem field?
> 
> nope, various fields in the executable's header are analyzed heuristically 
> to determine the OS it was compiled for. There is an "ABI" field in the ELF 
> header for this, IIRC, but it's not used consistently, hence the 
> heuristics. You can read more about this in a series of technical articles 
> about NetBSD on the O'Reilly network:
> 
> <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/irix.html?page=2> (last section)
> <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/05/10/linux_bsd.html?page=4> 
> 
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