/* ELF support for BFD.
Copyright (C) 1991-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by Fred Fish @ Cygnus Support, from information published
in "UNIX System V Release 4, Programmers Guide: ANSI C and
Programming Support Tools".
This file is part of BFD, the Binary File Descriptor library.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor, Boston,
MA 02110-1301, USA. */
/* This file is part of ELF support for BFD, and contains the portions
that describe how ELF is represented externally by the BFD library.
I.E. it describes the in-file representation of ELF. It requires
the elf/common.h file which contains the portions that are common to
both the internal and external representations. */
/* The 64-bit stuff is kind of random. Perhaps someone will publish a
spec someday. */
#ifndef _ELF_EXTERNAL_H
#define _ELF_EXTERNAL_H
/* Special section indices, which may show up in st_shndx fields, among
other places. */
#define SHN_LORESERVE 0xFF00 /* Begin range of reserved indices */
#define SHN_LOPROC 0xFF00 /* Begin range of appl-specific */
#define SHN_HIPROC 0xFF1F /* End range of appl-specific */
#define SHN_LOOS 0xFF20 /* OS specific semantics, lo */
#define SHN_HIOS 0xFF3F /* OS specific semantics, hi */
#define SHN_ABS 0xFFF1 /* Associated symbol is absolute */
#define SHN_COMMON 0xFFF2 /* Associated symbol is in common */
#define SHN_XINDEX 0xFFFF /* Section index is held elsewhere */
#define SHN_HIRESERVE 0xFFFF /* End range of reserved indices */
typedef struct {
unsigned char sh_name[4]; /* Section name, index in string tbl */
unsigned char sh_type[4]; /* Type of section */
unsigned char sh_flags[4]; /* Miscellaneous section attributes */
unsigned char sh_addr[4]; /* Section virtual addr at execution */
unsigned char sh_offset[4]; /* Section file offset */
unsigned char sh_size[4]; /* Size of section in bytes */
unsigned char sh_link[4]; /* Index of another section */
unsigned char sh_info[4]; /* Additional section information */
unsigned char sh_addralign[4]; /* Section alignment */
unsigned char sh_entsize[4]; /* Entry size if section holds table */
} Elf32_External_Shdr;
typedef struct {
unsigned char sh_name[4]; /* Section name, index in string tbl */
unsigned char sh_type[4]; /* Type of section */
unsigned char sh_flags[8]; /* Miscellaneous section attributes */
unsigned char sh_addr[8]; /* Section virtual addr at execution */
unsigned char sh_offset[8]; /* Section file offset */
unsigned char sh_size[8]; /* Size of section in bytes */
unsigned char sh_link[4]; /* Index of another section */
unsigned char sh_info[4]; /* Additional section information */
unsigned char sh_addralign[8]; /* Section alignment */
unsigned char sh_entsize[8]; /* Entry size if section holds table */
} Elf64_External_Shdr;
/* Compression header */
typedef struct {
unsigned char ch_type[4]; /* Type of compression */
unsigned char ch_size[4]; /* Size of uncompressed data in bytes */
unsigned char ch_addralign[4]; /* Alignment of uncompressed data */
} Elf32_External_Chdr;
typedef struct {
unsigned char ch_type[4]; /* Type of compression */
unsigned char ch_reserved[4]; /* Padding */
unsigned char ch_size[8]; /* Size of uncompressed data in bytes */
unsigned char ch_addralign[8]; /* Alignment of uncompressed data */
} Elf64_External_Chdr;
/* Symbol table entry */
typedef struct {
unsigned char st_name[4]; /* Symbol name, index in string tbl */
unsigned char st_value[4]; /* Value of the symbol */
unsigned char st_size[4]; /* Associated symbol size */
unsigned char st_info[1]; /* Type and binding attributes */
unsigned char st_other[1]; /* No defined meaning, 0 */
unsigned char st_shndx[2]; /* Associated section index */
} Elf32_External_Sym;
typedef struct {
unsigned char st_name[4]; /* Symbol name, index in string tbl */
unsigned char st_info[1]; /* Type and binding attributes */
unsigned char st_other[1]; /* No defined meaning, 0 */
unsigned char st_shndx[2]; /* Associated section index */
unsigned char st_value[8]; /* Value of the symbol */
unsigned char st_size[8]; /* Associated symbol size */
} Elf64_External_Sym;
typedef struct {
unsigned char namesz[4]; /* Size of entry's owner string */
unsigned char descsz[4]; /* Size of the note descriptor */
unsigned char type[4]; /* Interpretation of the descriptor */
char name[1]; /* Start of the name+desc data */
} Elf_External_Note;
/* Align an address upward to a boundary, expressed as a number of bytes.
E.g. align to an 8-byte boundary with argument of 8. */
#define ELF_ALIGN_UP(addr, boundary) \
(((bfd_vma) (addr) + ((boundary) - 1)) & ~ (bfd_vma) ((boundary) -1))
/* Compute the offset of the note descriptor from size of note entry's
owner string and note alignment. */
#define ELF_NOTE_DESC_OFFSET(namesz, align) \
ELF_ALIGN_UP (offsetof (Elf_External_Note, name) + (namesz), (align))
/* Compute the offset of the next note entry from size of note entry's
owner string, size of the note descriptor and note alignment. */
#define ELF_NOTE_NEXT_OFFSET(namesz, descsz, align) \
ELF_ALIGN_UP (ELF_NOTE_DESC_OFFSET ((namesz), (align)) + (descsz), \
(align))
/* Relocation Entries */
typedef struct {
unsigned char r_offset[4]; /* Location at which to apply the action */
unsigned char r_info[4]; /* index and type of relocation */
} Elf32_External_Rel;
typedef struct {
unsigned char r_offset[4]; /* Location at which to apply the action */
unsigned char r_info[4]; /* index and type of relocation */
unsigned char r_addend[4]; /* Constant addend used to compute value */
} Elf32_External_Rela;
typedef struct {
unsigned char r_offset[8]; /* Location at which to apply the action */
unsigned char r_info[8]; /* index and type of relocation */
} Elf64_External_Rel;
typedef struct {
unsigned char r_offset[8]; /* Location at which to apply the action */
unsigned char r_info[8]; /* index and type of relocation */
unsigned char r_addend[8]; /* Constant addend used to compute value */
} Elf64_External_Rela;
typedef struct {
unsigned char d_tag[4]; /* entry tag value */
union {
unsigned char d_val[4];
unsigned char d_ptr[4];
} d_un;
} Elf32_External_Dyn;
typedef struct {
unsigned char d_tag[8]; /* entry tag value */
union {
unsigned char d_val[8];
unsigned char d_ptr[8];
} d_un;
} Elf64_External_Dyn;
/* The version structures are currently size independent. They are
named without a 32 or 64. If that ever changes, these structures
will need to be renamed. */
/* This structure appears in a SHT_GNU_verdef section. */
/* This structure appears on the stack and in NT_AUXV core file notes. */
typedef struct
{
unsigned char a_type[4];
unsigned char a_val[4];
} Elf32_External_Auxv;