Difference between revisions of "Mach-O"

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   flags  : uint32_t;
 
   flags  : uint32_t;
 
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F_and_C = $01;
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GC      = $02;
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GC_only = $04;

Revision as of 01:12, 28 August 2009

from Wikipedia:

Mach-O, short for Mach object file format, is a file format for executables, object code, shared libraries, dynamically-loaded code, and core dumps. A derivation of the a.out format, Mach-O offered more extensibility and faster access to information in the symbol table.


File Format Reference can be found here


Following tools are used in Mac OS X to view Mach-O files:

otool - object file displaying tool

nm - display name list (symbol table)

Objective-C segment

There're no documentation found over __OBJC segment and its sections. The following information has been gathered from cctools sources

Sections

__image_info

The section contents image info information (8 bytes):

imageInfo = packed record
  version : uint32_t;
  flags   : uint32_t;
end;

Flags values:

F_and_C = $01;
GC      = $02;
GC_only = $04;