In linux-2.6.34-rc1, an ELF core extension was added; user-land tools
manipulating ELF core dump such as gdb and binutils has already been
modified before; so elf.5 needs to be modified accordingly.
You can follow information on the ELF extension via the LKML post:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/3/103
Date Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:06:07 +0900 (JST)
Subject [RESEND][mmotm][PATCH v2, 0/5] elf coredump: Add extended numbering support
This Linux-specific extension was added in kernel 2.6.34.
Reviewed-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The existing text is broken, because there is
no '"Note Section" format' describe below. Simplest
solution is to remove the words "described below".
Reported-by: Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
As reported by Yuri Kozlov and confirmed by Mike Frysinger, EI_BRAND is
not in GABI (http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/latest/ch4.eheader.html)
It looks to be a BSDism
Reported-by: Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Various pages use inconsistent terms for 'null byte' (which
is the C99/SUSv3 term for the '\0' character).
To rectify this the following changes were made in these pages:
Replace 'zero byte' with 'null byte'.
Replace 'null character' with 'null byte'.
Replace 'nulls' with 'null bytes'.
Replace 'NUL-terminated' by 'null-terminated'.
Replace 'NUL' by 'null byte'.
Replace 'terminating NUL' by 'terminating null byte'.
Replace 'final NUL' by 'terminating null byte'.
Replace 'NUL character' by 'null byte'.
tweaked the short description to include definition of 'ELF'
add ELFOSABI_NONE to the ELFOSABI_ list
tweak/add more machines to EM_ list for ehdr->e_machine
fix indenting to be consistent
tweak the display of the ELF_ST_* macros
document the Elf_Dyn structure