Reading ELF Files

["Nordlöw" via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 2 May 2014 at 10:42:40 UTC, yazd wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 May 2014 at 17:31:52 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
>>> Here you go, https://github.com/yazd/elf-d.
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> Anytime. By the way, if you need more stuff out of it or help, 
> post an issue on github. I think I'll be able to help a bit 
> more. But if this library is to move forward, the API will need 
> a redesign. You might want to keep that in mind.

Ok. Great!

Some reflections:

- This is not a robust way of detecting limitations of the 
package (elf.d):

     static assert(is(size_t == ulong), "only 64bit is supported 
for now");

This static assert needs to be called at run-time on the header 
contents of the mmapped file itself.

- It is nice that you use MMFile. I do that too in my engine. 
However, to make cooperation more flexible and efficient class 
ELF should provide a ctor that takes and existing MMfile as 
argument (refernce) during construction, since my file engine 
class RegFile temporarily creates such instances when neeeded. 
BTW: What does package keyword mean in the line

   package MmFile file;
inside the definition of ELF.

For detail see for example:

https://github.com/nordlow/justd/blob/master/fs.d#L1192