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Re: Finding the architectures of a binary




On Nov 10, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Iceberg-Dev wrote:

I'm trying to find all the architectures available in a binary using code.

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What I don't know/understand:

- I'm not sure to understand how you can inspect a binary without loading it in memory. It looks as if the dyld API work only with the running binary (no parameter for instance to enumerate the number of images with _dyld_image_count();).

- There doesn't seem to be an API for peff binaries. Is it safe to assume that the magic cookie is always at the beginning of the file?



Open the file and parse the info yourself using mach-o/loader.h and mach-o/fat.h. PEF is very rare these days, but you can do the same thing using CarbonCore/PEFBinaryFormat.h. Of course on OS X, PEF will only contain PPC code.

Brian Bergstrand
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