Inside ELF: Exploring the Core of Executable Files

🚀 Inside ELF: Exploring the Core of Executable Files 🚀

Dive deep into the world of Linux with our latest course, "Inside ELF: Exploring the Core of Executable Files," specifically designed for those eager to understand the inner workings of executable files on Unix-like operating systems. This is your opportunity to master the ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) which stands as the standard binary format for executables, shared libraries, core dumps, and more.

🔍 What will you learn? 🔍

• Understanding ELF: Gain a comprehensive grasp of the ELF file format, its structure, sections, headers, and dynamic linking mechanisms.
• Compilation Process: Explore each stage of the compilation process, from pre-processing to linking, and understand how they contribute to the final executable.
• Machine Code and Assembly: Delve into the world of machine code, also known as opcode, and learn how to write ARM assembly code that can be run on QEMU.
• Assembly Syntax: Get familiar with the syntax of Assembly language, including labels, instructions, comments, and assembler directives.
• ELF Sections: Learn about the different sections in an ELF file such as .text, .data, and .bss and how they are used.
• Registers and Debugging: View ARM registers using QEMU's Monitor Interface and use GDB to understand who calls the main() function.
• Assembler Directives: Explore various assembler directives and understand their purpose in assembly code.
• Linker Scripts: Write a simple linker script file, control the layout of sections in your executable, and learn about load time addresses and runtime addresses.
• ELF Header Analysis: Use tools like readelf to inspect the ELF header and understand the role of relocation operations performed by the linker.
• Creating Startup Code: Learn how to write startup code for copying data into RAM, BSS, and initializing the stack.
• ELF Header Coding: Write a startup code from C code that manipulates the ELF header.
• Segments vs Sections: Understand the difference between segments and sections in an ELF file.
• Dumping and Debugging ELF Files: Use dumpelf to dump ELF structures, and understand how changes to the ELF file can affect its functionality.
• Symbol Table: Gain a deep understanding of the symbol table and what happens when you run commands like strip.
• Minimal ELF Executable: Write a very minimal ELF executable file with a size less than 200KB.
• Size Command: Learn how to use the size command to get detailed information about text, data, and BSS sections.

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