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relocation entry

One line of an object file's list of unfinished places: where the bytes are, which symbol they need, and how to compute the value.

A relocation entry records an offset within a section, a relocation type, a symbol and an addend (stored in the entry on ELF RELA, or in the bytes being patched on Mach-O and COFF); objdump -r, readelf -r, otool -r and dumpbin /relocations list them.

Examples

  • 0x6 R_X86_64_PLT32 helper-0x4: patch the 4 bytes at offset 6 with the distance to helper, minus 4.

See also

relocation type otool readelf objdump
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