2008-09-26 Kai Tietz <kai.tietz@onevision.com>
[binutils.git] / include / elf / internal.h
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1 /* ELF support for BFD.
2 Copyright 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002,
3 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 Written by Fred Fish @ Cygnus Support, from information published
6 in "UNIX System V Release 4, Programmers Guide: ANSI C and
7 Programming Support Tools".
9 This file is part of BFD, the Binary File Descriptor library.
11 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
12 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
13 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
14 (at your option) any later version.
16 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
17 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
18 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
19 GNU General Public License for more details.
21 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
22 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
23 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
26 /* This file is part of ELF support for BFD, and contains the portions
27 that describe how ELF is represented internally in the BFD library.
28 I.E. it describes the in-memory representation of ELF. It requires
29 the elf-common.h file which contains the portions that are common to
30 both the internal and external representations. */
33 /* NOTE that these structures are not kept in the same order as they appear
34 in the object file. In some cases they've been reordered for more optimal
35 packing under various circumstances. */
37 #ifndef _ELF_INTERNAL_H
38 #define _ELF_INTERNAL_H
40 /* Special section indices, which may show up in st_shndx fields, among
41 other places. */
43 #undef SHN_UNDEF
44 #undef SHN_LORESERVE
45 #undef SHN_LOPROC
46 #undef SHN_HIPROC
47 #undef SHN_LOOS
48 #undef SHN_HIOS
49 #undef SHN_ABS
50 #undef SHN_COMMON
51 #undef SHN_XINDEX
52 #undef SHN_HIRESERVE
53 #define SHN_UNDEF 0 /* Undefined section reference */
54 #define SHN_LORESERVE (-0x100u) /* Begin range of reserved indices */
55 #define SHN_LOPROC (-0x100u) /* Begin range of appl-specific */
56 #define SHN_HIPROC (-0xE1u) /* End range of appl-specific */
57 #define SHN_LOOS (-0xE0u) /* OS specific semantics, lo */
58 #define SHN_HIOS (-0xC1u) /* OS specific semantics, hi */
59 #define SHN_ABS (-0xFu) /* Associated symbol is absolute */
60 #define SHN_COMMON (-0xEu) /* Associated symbol is in common */
61 #define SHN_XINDEX (-0x1u) /* Section index is held elsewhere */
62 #define SHN_HIRESERVE (-0x1u) /* End range of reserved indices */
63 #define SHN_BAD (-0x101u) /* Used internally by bfd */
65 /* ELF Header */
67 #define EI_NIDENT 16 /* Size of e_ident[] */
69 typedef struct elf_internal_ehdr {
70 unsigned char e_ident[EI_NIDENT]; /* ELF "magic number" */
71 bfd_vma e_entry; /* Entry point virtual address */
72 bfd_size_type e_phoff; /* Program header table file offset */
73 bfd_size_type e_shoff; /* Section header table file offset */
74 unsigned long e_version; /* Identifies object file version */
75 unsigned long e_flags; /* Processor-specific flags */
76 unsigned short e_type; /* Identifies object file type */
77 unsigned short e_machine; /* Specifies required architecture */
78 unsigned int e_ehsize; /* ELF header size in bytes */
79 unsigned int e_phentsize; /* Program header table entry size */
80 unsigned int e_phnum; /* Program header table entry count */
81 unsigned int e_shentsize; /* Section header table entry size */
82 unsigned int e_shnum; /* Section header table entry count */
83 unsigned int e_shstrndx; /* Section header string table index */
84 } Elf_Internal_Ehdr;
86 /* Program header */
88 struct elf_internal_phdr {
89 unsigned long p_type; /* Identifies program segment type */
90 unsigned long p_flags; /* Segment flags */
91 bfd_vma p_offset; /* Segment file offset */
92 bfd_vma p_vaddr; /* Segment virtual address */
93 bfd_vma p_paddr; /* Segment physical address */
94 bfd_vma p_filesz; /* Segment size in file */
95 bfd_vma p_memsz; /* Segment size in memory */
96 bfd_vma p_align; /* Segment alignment, file & memory */
99 typedef struct elf_internal_phdr Elf_Internal_Phdr;
101 /* Section header */
103 typedef struct elf_internal_shdr {
104 unsigned int sh_name; /* Section name, index in string tbl */
105 unsigned int sh_type; /* Type of section */
106 bfd_vma sh_flags; /* Miscellaneous section attributes */
107 bfd_vma sh_addr; /* Section virtual addr at execution */
108 file_ptr sh_offset; /* Section file offset */
109 bfd_size_type sh_size; /* Size of section in bytes */
110 unsigned int sh_link; /* Index of another section */
111 unsigned int sh_info; /* Additional section information */
112 bfd_vma sh_addralign; /* Section alignment */
113 bfd_size_type sh_entsize; /* Entry size if section holds table */
115 /* The internal rep also has some cached info associated with it. */
116 asection * bfd_section; /* Associated BFD section. */
117 unsigned char *contents; /* Section contents. */
118 } Elf_Internal_Shdr;
120 /* Symbol table entry */
122 struct elf_internal_sym {
123 bfd_vma st_value; /* Value of the symbol */
124 bfd_vma st_size; /* Associated symbol size */
125 unsigned long st_name; /* Symbol name, index in string tbl */
126 unsigned char st_info; /* Type and binding attributes */
127 unsigned char st_other; /* Visibilty, and target specific */
128 unsigned int st_shndx; /* Associated section index */
131 typedef struct elf_internal_sym Elf_Internal_Sym;
133 /* Note segments */
135 typedef struct elf_internal_note {
136 unsigned long namesz; /* Size of entry's owner string */
137 unsigned long descsz; /* Size of the note descriptor */
138 unsigned long type; /* Interpretation of the descriptor */
139 char * namedata; /* Start of the name+desc data */
140 char * descdata; /* Start of the desc data */
141 bfd_vma descpos; /* File offset of the descdata */
142 } Elf_Internal_Note;
144 /* Relocation Entries */
146 typedef struct elf_internal_rela {
147 bfd_vma r_offset; /* Location at which to apply the action */
148 bfd_vma r_info; /* Index and Type of relocation */
149 bfd_vma r_addend; /* Constant addend used to compute value */
150 } Elf_Internal_Rela;
152 /* dynamic section structure */
154 typedef struct elf_internal_dyn {
155 /* This needs to support 64-bit values in elf64. */
156 bfd_vma d_tag; /* entry tag value */
157 union {
158 /* This needs to support 64-bit values in elf64. */
159 bfd_vma d_val;
160 bfd_vma d_ptr;
161 } d_un;
162 } Elf_Internal_Dyn;
164 /* This structure appears in a SHT_GNU_verdef section. */
166 typedef struct elf_internal_verdef {
167 unsigned short vd_version; /* Version number of structure. */
168 unsigned short vd_flags; /* Flags (VER_FLG_*). */
169 unsigned short vd_ndx; /* Version index. */
170 unsigned short vd_cnt; /* Number of verdaux entries. */
171 unsigned long vd_hash; /* Hash of name. */
172 unsigned long vd_aux; /* Offset to verdaux entries. */
173 unsigned long vd_next; /* Offset to next verdef. */
175 /* These fields are set up when BFD reads in the structure. FIXME:
176 It would be cleaner to store these in a different structure. */
177 bfd *vd_bfd; /* BFD. */
178 const char *vd_nodename; /* Version name. */
179 struct elf_internal_verdef *vd_nextdef; /* vd_next as pointer. */
180 struct elf_internal_verdaux *vd_auxptr; /* vd_aux as pointer. */
181 unsigned int vd_exp_refno; /* Used by the linker. */
182 } Elf_Internal_Verdef;
184 /* This structure appears in a SHT_GNU_verdef section. */
186 typedef struct elf_internal_verdaux {
187 unsigned long vda_name; /* String table offset of name. */
188 unsigned long vda_next; /* Offset to next verdaux. */
190 /* These fields are set up when BFD reads in the structure. FIXME:
191 It would be cleaner to store these in a different structure. */
192 const char *vda_nodename; /* vda_name as pointer. */
193 struct elf_internal_verdaux *vda_nextptr; /* vda_next as pointer. */
194 } Elf_Internal_Verdaux;
196 /* This structure appears in a SHT_GNU_verneed section. */
198 typedef struct elf_internal_verneed {
199 unsigned short vn_version; /* Version number of structure. */
200 unsigned short vn_cnt; /* Number of vernaux entries. */
201 unsigned long vn_file; /* String table offset of library name. */
202 unsigned long vn_aux; /* Offset to vernaux entries. */
203 unsigned long vn_next; /* Offset to next verneed. */
205 /* These fields are set up when BFD reads in the structure. FIXME:
206 It would be cleaner to store these in a different structure. */
207 bfd *vn_bfd; /* BFD. */
208 const char *vn_filename; /* vn_file as pointer. */
209 struct elf_internal_vernaux *vn_auxptr; /* vn_aux as pointer. */
210 struct elf_internal_verneed *vn_nextref; /* vn_nextref as pointer. */
211 } Elf_Internal_Verneed;
213 /* This structure appears in a SHT_GNU_verneed section. */
215 typedef struct elf_internal_vernaux {
216 unsigned long vna_hash; /* Hash of dependency name. */
217 unsigned short vna_flags; /* Flags (VER_FLG_*). */
218 unsigned short vna_other; /* Unused. */
219 unsigned long vna_name; /* String table offset to version name. */
220 unsigned long vna_next; /* Offset to next vernaux. */
222 /* These fields are set up when BFD reads in the structure. FIXME:
223 It would be cleaner to store these in a different structure. */
224 const char *vna_nodename; /* vna_name as pointer. */
225 struct elf_internal_vernaux *vna_nextptr; /* vna_next as pointer. */
226 } Elf_Internal_Vernaux;
228 /* This structure appears in a SHT_GNU_versym section. This is not a
229 standard ELF structure; ELF just uses Elf32_Half. */
231 typedef struct elf_internal_versym {
232 unsigned short vs_vers;
233 } Elf_Internal_Versym;
235 /* Structure for syminfo section. */
236 typedef struct
238 unsigned short int si_boundto;
239 unsigned short int si_flags;
240 } Elf_Internal_Syminfo;
242 /* This structure appears on the stack and in NT_AUXV core file notes. */
243 typedef struct
245 bfd_vma a_type;
246 bfd_vma a_val;
247 } Elf_Internal_Auxv;
250 /* This structure is used to describe how sections should be assigned
251 to program segments. */
253 struct elf_segment_map
255 /* Next program segment. */
256 struct elf_segment_map *next;
257 /* Program segment type. */
258 unsigned long p_type;
259 /* Program segment flags. */
260 unsigned long p_flags;
261 /* Program segment physical address. */
262 bfd_vma p_paddr;
263 /* Program segment virtual address offset from section vma. */
264 bfd_vma p_vaddr_offset;
265 /* Program segment alignment. */
266 bfd_vma p_align;
267 /* Segment size in file and memory */
268 bfd_vma p_size;
269 /* Whether the p_flags field is valid; if not, the flags are based
270 on the section flags. */
271 unsigned int p_flags_valid : 1;
272 /* Whether the p_paddr field is valid; if not, the physical address
273 is based on the section lma values. */
274 unsigned int p_paddr_valid : 1;
275 /* Whether the p_align field is valid; if not, PT_LOAD segment
276 alignment is based on the default maximum page size. */
277 unsigned int p_align_valid : 1;
278 /* Whether the p_size field is valid; if not, the size are based
279 on the section sizes. */
280 unsigned int p_size_valid : 1;
281 /* Whether this segment includes the file header. */
282 unsigned int includes_filehdr : 1;
283 /* Whether this segment includes the program headers. */
284 unsigned int includes_phdrs : 1;
285 /* Number of sections (may be 0). */
286 unsigned int count;
287 /* Sections. Actual number of elements is in count field. */
288 asection *sections[1];
291 /* .tbss is special. It doesn't contribute memory space to normal
292 segments and it doesn't take file space in normal segments. */
293 #define ELF_SECTION_SIZE(sec_hdr, segment) \
294 (((sec_hdr->sh_flags & SHF_TLS) == 0 \
295 || sec_hdr->sh_type != SHT_NOBITS \
296 || segment->p_type == PT_TLS) ? sec_hdr->sh_size : 0)
298 /* Decide if the given sec_hdr is in the given segment. PT_TLS segment
299 contains only SHF_TLS sections. Only PT_LOAD, PT_GNU_RELRO and
300 and PT_TLS segments can contain SHF_TLS sections. */
301 #define ELF_IS_SECTION_IN_SEGMENT(sec_hdr, segment) \
302 (((((sec_hdr->sh_flags & SHF_TLS) != 0) \
303 && (segment->p_type == PT_TLS \
304 || segment->p_type == PT_GNU_RELRO \
305 || segment->p_type == PT_LOAD)) \
306 || ((sec_hdr->sh_flags & SHF_TLS) == 0 \
307 && segment->p_type != PT_TLS)) \
308 /* Any section besides one of type SHT_NOBITS must have a file \
309 offset within the segment. */ \
310 && (sec_hdr->sh_type == SHT_NOBITS \
311 || ((bfd_vma) sec_hdr->sh_offset >= segment->p_offset \
312 && (sec_hdr->sh_offset + ELF_SECTION_SIZE(sec_hdr, segment) \
313 <= segment->p_offset + segment->p_filesz))) \
314 /* SHF_ALLOC sections must have VMAs within the segment. Be \
315 careful about segments right at the end of memory. */ \
316 && ((sec_hdr->sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC) == 0 \
317 || (sec_hdr->sh_addr >= segment->p_vaddr \
318 && (sec_hdr->sh_addr - segment->p_vaddr \
319 + ELF_SECTION_SIZE(sec_hdr, segment) <= segment->p_memsz))))
321 /* Decide if the given sec_hdr is in the given segment in file. */
322 #define ELF_IS_SECTION_IN_SEGMENT_FILE(sec_hdr, segment) \
323 (sec_hdr->sh_size > 0 \
324 && ELF_IS_SECTION_IN_SEGMENT (sec_hdr, segment))
326 /* Decide if the given sec_hdr is in the given segment in memory. */
327 #define ELF_IS_SECTION_IN_SEGMENT_MEMORY(sec_hdr, segment) \
328 (ELF_SECTION_SIZE(sec_hdr, segment) > 0 \
329 && ELF_IS_SECTION_IN_SEGMENT (sec_hdr, segment))
331 #endif /* _ELF_INTERNAL_H */