What's in a Linux executable?
Executables have been fascinating to me ever since I discovered, as a kid, that they were just files. If you renamed a .exe to something else, you could open it in notepad! And if you renamed somet...| fasterthanli.me
Executables have been fascinating to me ever since I discovered, as a kid, that they were just files. If you renamed a .exe to something else, you could open it in notepad! And if you renamed somet...| fasterthanli.me
This is part 1 of a 4 part series exploring the structure of the Mach-O file format. Here are links to part 2, part 3, and part 4. I recently read a great article from Amos over at fasterthanli.me that explored the ELF format for Linux executables. Digging into these kinds of topics in a deep and thorough way has always been super interesting to me, not to mention educational. So, I thought I’d take a stab at doing something similar for Mach-O, the object file format used by macOS.| gpanders.com
