Glossary

Glossary

A collection of common terms used when describing ELF related things.

• DSO
  (Dynamic Shared Object) An object file built to be shared by multiple processes in a resource efficient manner.
  • How To Write Shared Libraries, by Ulrich Drepper.
• ELF
  (Extensible Linking Format) A file format for executables and dynamic shared objects.
  • Executable and Linkable Format (wikipedia).
• PIC
  (Position Independent Code) Machine code that will execute correctly independent of its load address.
  • See Position Independent Code (wikipedia).
• PIE
  (Position Independent Executable) An executable comprised entirely of Position Independent Code.
  • See Position Independent Code (wikipedia).