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changeset 14:1bf3aae7803e
Updated gelfload's README.
| author | Gregor Richards <Richards@codu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:08:12 -0500 |
| parents | a5825771cac3 |
| children | d30b0a07f3e1 |
| files | gelfload/README |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/gelfload/README Mon Dec 14 16:01:46 2009 -0500 +++ b/gelfload/README Mon Dec 14 16:08:12 2009 -0500 @@ -1,2 +1,20 @@ -This is elfload, a portable runtime ELF loader. It lets you use ELF on +This is gelfload, a portable runtime ELF loader. It lets you use ELF on platforms that don't natively support ELF! + +Some special properties of gelfload: + + * To integrate gelfload well into platforms that /do/ support ELF, gelfload + ELF files should have their interpreter set to /usr/bin/gelfload-ld + + * gelfload ELF files may refer to gelfload .so files by their standard name, + or they may use symbolic names to refer to host libraries: + * libhost_<name> refers to the library <name> on the host, e.g. + libhost_libc.so.6 or libhost_msvcrt.dll + * libhost_.so refers to libc or its nearest equivalent + * libloader_dl.0 refers to the loader's builtin library providing dlopen() + and dlsym() + +gelfload is still in development, and doesn't yet support all ELF relocations. +Some tests are in test/. They're tested primarily on GNU/Linux, however the +test named testdl uses only standard libc functions and should work on any host +system (including e.g. Mac OS X).