Re: [Tinycc-devel] TCC code generation for a stack based VM

[Julian Brown]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:57:26AM +1300, lucas wix wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 09:17, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> 
> > Use ELF, it does exactly what you want - no need to handle symbols
> > if you don't need them. An ELF loader can be 50 line long.
> > Moreover, I won't integrate another object or executable format in
> > TinyCC if it is not a standard one.
> >
> > Fabrice.
> 
> Hi, thank you for TCC.
> 
> Are there any books or online resources that you can recommend for me 
> to learn about linkers/loaders/ELF.

I'd recommend the "Linkers and Loaders" book by John Levine which someone
else has mentioned already (which is especially good since it's so well
written & it might otherwise be a rather "dry" subject), and also the
ELF specification which is available from http://www.wotsit.org/:

  http://www.wotsit.org/download.asp?f=elf11g

HTH,

Julian