Re: What's ELF

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From: J.H.M.Dassen
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 00:00

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In article <4adl90$1sf@news.asiaonline.net>,
Vincent <ywong@asiaonline.net> wrote:
>Can you tell me:
>	what is ELF?

This question is answered in the ELF HowTo near
http://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/users/barlow/linux-gcc.html

>	what's the benefit of using this format?
It's much easier to do dynamic loading and to make shared libraries.
If you are a programmer, take a look at "ELF: From the programmer's 
perspective" by H.J. Lu, available via 
http://www.debian.org/Documentation/

>	how to generate ELF format files?
This one is answered in the ELF HowTo too.

Hope this helps,
Ray
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