Processing ELF relocations – understanding the relocs, symbols, section data, and how they work together

I stumbled across this question and thought it deserved an answer. Have elf.h handy. You can find it on the internet. Each RELA section contains an array of Elf32_Rela entries as you know, but is also tied to a certain other section. r_offset is an offset into that other section (in this case – it … Read more

How can I find the data structure that represents mine layout of Minesweeper in memory?

Part 1 of 3 If you are serious into reverse engineering – forget about trainers and cheat engines. Good reverse engineer should first get to know OS, core API functions, program general structure (what is run loop, windows structures, event handling routines), file format (PE). Petzold’s classics “Programming Windows” can help (www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=157231995X) as well as … Read more

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