Re: [Elftoolchain-developers] Multiple archs and platforms.

[Joseph K. <jk...@us...>]

> I played around and decided touching the code was not a great solution.
> Instead I have written a mmap/munmap pair of functions for Windows based on
> the Python code for the mmap module and I can read elf files without a
> problem on Windows. I do not know if the update code for writes works.

Just as a data point, the Minix team seems to have worked around the
lack of an mmap() system call in Minix by implementing a malloc() based
replacement:

  http://git.minix3.org/?p=minix.git;a=blob;f=lib/libelf/compat/mmap.c

Some of our tools also use mmap(); I need check whether we can use a
simple elf_begin() instead, for these cases.

Regards,
Koshy