Re: [boost] [ELFIO] - New library proposal

On 8 May 2015, at 19:20, Antony Polukhin wrote:

2015-05-07 23:43 GMT+03:00 Serge Lamikhov-Center :

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Hello Boost community!

I'd like to determine interest in possible new library submission. ELFIO is header-only C++ library that provides a simple interface for reading and generating files in ELF binary format. It is a mature library and is in use by a number of open source and commercial projects. It is a part of some Linux distributions as well as Cygwin project. <...>

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Please share your opinion on making this library be a part of the Boost.

HI,

I've been investigating this library a few months ago. Unfortunately it supports only ELF file format, while I needed support for PE file format too. I've ended up with writing a less functional but portable class: http://apolukhin.github.io/Boost.DLL/boost/dll/library_info.html

ELFIO library is good. But I'd love to see this library extended to support PE and MACH-O formats before Boost review. Without that library scope seems limited.

P.S.: sorry for previous mail, keyboard seems to be very attractive to baby.

-- Best regards, Antony Polukhin

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Absolutely agree -and I'd suggest it's not too tricky once a suitable abstraction is established. Looking at the interface between libdwarf & libelf might be a good starting point - I found adding a PE loader to libdwarf using a translation of its interface to libelf was quite simple, as it wasn't Elf-specific. Stuart Dootson