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ELFkickers是一组elf工具

This distribution is a collection of programs that are generally
unrelated, except in that they all deal with the ELF file format.

The main purpose of these programs is to be illustrative and
educational -- to help fellow programmers understand the ELF file
format and something of how it works under the Linux platform. For the
most part, these programs have limited real-world utility. (Although I
myself have found some of these programs quite useful while writing
the others.)

Each program is independent. There is no shared code between them, and
in fact they all take slightly different approaches to handling ELF
files.

The table of contents:

sstrip/
  sstrip is a small utility that removes everything from an ELF file
  that is not part of the file's memory image.

rebind/
  rebind is another small utility that alters the binding of selected
  exported symbols in an ELF object file.

elfls/
  elfls is a utility that displays an ELF file's program and/or
  section header tables, which serve as a kind of global roadmap to
  the file's contents.

elftoc/
  elftoc takes an ELF file and generates C code that defines a
  structure with the same memory image, using the structures and
  preprocessor symbols defined in <linux/elf.h>.

ebfc/
  ebfc is a compiler for a tiny programming language. The compiler can
  generate ELF executables, object files, and shared libraries.

tiny/
  This directory contains a collection of very small ELF executables.

See the README in each directory for more details.

The ELF standard is necessary reading if you wish to fully understand
how all of the programs work. You can download a copy as a Postscript
document from ftp://tsx.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/GCC/ELF.doc.tar.gz.
Alternately, you can obtain a flat-text transcription of this document
from http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/ELF.txt.

    These programs are Copyright (C) 1999-2001 by Brian Raiter.

    These programs are all free software; you can redistribute and/or
    modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
    published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
    License, or (at your option) any later version.

    These programs are distributed in the hope that they will be
    interesting, but without any warranty; without even the implied
    warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
    See the GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program, in the file COPYING. If not, write to the
    Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330,
    Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.

Bug reports and general feedback should be directed to the author at
[e-mail].

Share and enjoy.

Brian Raiter
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