Hey Sorry for late reply but those docs you send me is what i was looking for i wanted a more general overview on binary formats i guess. http://calderasystems.com/developers/devspecs/abi386-4.pdf this link was pretty useful, i just want to get up to speed with these things, since i don't really know much about actual binaries i sort of just let gcc do that for me the past few years :P Anyways thanks loads -Phil 2009/3/27 Kai Ruottu <kai.ruottu@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Philip Herron wrote: > >> Just a quick question do any of you guys know any good reading for >> binutils besides the documenation given with it like maby a book on >> binary formats like elf and a.out; and creating them from assembly or >> RTL, maby a book on assemblers and linkers is what i am looking for. > > It would help a lot if one could know to which things these are > related... It could be expected that people have learned that > the ELF format came with "Unix System V Rel 4" and Unix and Unix- > like systems like Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD have adopted this > same format, so a simple search with "System V ABI" could lead > to many documents... Like : > > http://calderasystems.com/developers/devspecs/abi386-4.pdf > > (the search gave a 'https://' URL) > > For the early BSD 'aout' and SVR3.2 'COFF' format (the basement in > Windoze's 'PE' format) probably similar searches could give results. > >
