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Thursday, February 1, 2018
Ali Bahrami
kldd: ldd Style Analysis For Solaris Kernel Modules
Solaris 11.4 comes with a new user level command, /usr/bin/kldd.
kldd performs ldd style analysis for kernel modules.
The ldd utility is used to analyze the...
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Ali Bahrami
Core File Enhancements for elfdump
Solaris 11.4 comes with a number of enhancements that allow the
elfdump utility to display a wealth of information that was
previously hidden in Solaris core...
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Ali Bahrami
ELF Program Header Names
The generic ELF format does not assign names to program headers.
We've changed that with Solaris 11.4. This article describes how
and why.
So much of ELF...
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Ali Bahrami
ELF Section Compression
(Written: December 2015)
In December of 2015, we added public and documented ELF
functions for section compression to libelf, in cooperation with
the GNU...
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Ali Bahrami
ld -ztype, and Kernel Modules That Know What They Are
(Written: December 2015)
There are 3 basic types of ELF object:
ET_REL
A relocatable object, commonly called a "dot O" files, because
of the ".o" file extension...
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Ali Bahrami
Regular Expression and Glob Matching for Mapfiles
(Written: December 2015)
In Solaris 11 Update 4, the ld mapfile language has gained MATCH
and MATCH_REF expressions, which provide the ability to...
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Ali Bahrami
New CRT Objects. (Or: What Are CRT objects?)
(Written: December 2015)
Solaris 11 Update 4 introduces a new set of CRT objects for use by
compilers, and others creating specialized low level...
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Ali Bahrami
Goodbye (And Good Riddance) to -mt -and -D_REENTRANT
(Written: December 2015)
One of the nice simplifications in Solaris 11 Update 4 is that
it is no longer necessary to pass the -mt option to the compilers,
or...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Ali Bahrami
Weak Filters: Dealing With libc Refactoring Over The Years
(Written: December 2015)
libc Refactoring Over The Years
libc has always been the core library in Unix, providing the
system calls, and basic math and I/O...