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The dissection of a simple “hello world” ELF file

by giuscri on 11/28/15, 3:13 PM with 11 comments

• by jasode on 11/28/15, 6:19 PM

  Another ELF diagram also made the rounds a few years ago: https://code.google.com/p/corkami/wiki/ELF101

  It's more of a 1-page poster and doesn't have the longer explanations in the submitted github article.

• by danieleggert on 11/28/15, 9:42 PM

  Here's a similar write up I did about Mach-O (iOS / OS X): https://www.objc.io/issues/6-build-tools/mach-o-executables/

• by bgilroy26 on 11/28/15, 8:46 PM

  The last sentence of the first paragraph really struck me

  >In general, no single section has both write and execute permissions as this could compromise the security of the system.