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ELF Hello World Tutorial / Dynamic section

Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 37) ... Systems programming Executable file format Executable and Linkable Format ELF Hello World Tutorial Sections Dynamic linking sections
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Contains a lot of different flag masks.
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      • DF_1_PIE DT_FLAGS_1

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Dynamic section
Seems to be a GNU Binutils extension

DF_1_PIE

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DT_FLAGS_1
Determines if an executable is a position independent executable (PIE).
Seems to be informational only, since not used by Linux kernel 5.0 or glibc 2.29.
file 5.36 however does use it to display file type as explained at: stackoverflow.com/questions/34519521/why-does-gcc-create-a-shared-object-instead-of-an-executable-binary-according-to/55704865#55704865

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