Here are the pages tagged 'elf':
This writeup was inspired by a conversation on Mastodon.
The Problem It is really easy to do something silly with an ELF file, such as accidentally create a dynamically-linked one as opposed to a statically-linked one. This is incredibly easy to do because in nine out of ten situations, you want to create an ELF program that uses shared libraries.
Also, perhaps counter-intuitively, when linking a PIE binary, it is an ELF shared object with an entrypoint, not an ELF executable.
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