Hi Ian, On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Nagaraju Mekala <gnuuser.raj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> In the program header of elf can we have p_offset as 0x00000000. Is >> it a vaild elf file if we have p_offset with 0. > > Yes, this is normal. > > >> Program Header: >> LOAD off 0x00000000 vaddr 0xfffc0000 paddr 0xfffc0000 align 2**15 >> filesz 0x00015b80 memsz 0x00015b80 flags rwx >> >> >> Sections: >> Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn >> 0 .text 0000b638 fffc4800 fffc4800 00004800 2**5 >> CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE > > The p_offset field is simply the offset of the PT_LOAD segment within > the file. This says that the PT_LOAD segment starts at the beginning > of the file. This is normal, and means that the segment includes the > file header and program headers. The dynamic linker will use that > information, so it is convenient to have it loaded into memory. > > Ian Thanks for the reply. Regards, Nagaraju
