Compiler toolchains generate and read ELF files.
Sane compilers should use a separate standalone library to do the dirty work. E.g., Binutils uses BFD (in-tree and canonical source).
Operating systems read and run ELF files.
Kernels cannot link to a library nor use the C stlib, so they are more likely to implement it themselves.
This is the case of the Linux kernel 4.2 which implements it in th file fs/binfmt_elf.c
.
- Specialized libraries. Examples:
Sign up or
sign in create discussions.
There are no discussions about this article yet.