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elfrw is a very simple library that provides wrapper functions around
the reading and writing of ELF structs to and from files. Each read
function returns a 64-bit struct. If the source is itself a 64-bit ELF
file, then each function becomes a simple read, but when the source is
a 32-bit ELF file the function translates the struct into the
equivalent 64-bit ELF struct before returning. Likewise, the write
functions only accept 64-bit structs, and automatically translate the
data into 32-bit structs when writing to 32-bit ELF files. This allows
the same piece of code to support both types of ELF files with
relatively transparency.
(The library functions also check the endianness flag, and will
automatically flip the struct field values around if the ELF file's
endianness doesn't match the program's own.)
The library provides an initialization function in which a specific
setting can be requested. However, it is typically unnecessary to use
this function, since reading/writing the ELF header struct will
automatically set the bitness (and endianness) for all future calls.
Note that the purpose of this library is not to make a 32-bit ELF file
"look like" a 64-bit file. None of the actual values of the fields are
modified -- a 32-bit ELF header's e_ehsize field, for example, will
not be altered to the size of the 64-bit version. The purpose of this
library is not to hide which kind of file a program is working with;
rather, it is simply to avoid having to write two all-but-identical
functions for cases when the only difference is the size and
arrangement of struct fields.
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