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Re: code and data

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"Melzzzzz" <mel@zzzzz.com> wrote in message 
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> On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:55:15 -0400
> "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> wrote:
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>>     Now is a flat binary only data or does it contain any code? I
>> know the sections are stripped away.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>
> What you mean by that? You can load binary into RAM and execute
> it no problem on Linux and Windows.

    Only if there is relaocatable data mapped by the linker or loader for 
execution. And the binary happens to have executable code. If you remove 
section (or segment) headers which would be meaningful code, You'll have 
something that linux's file command would call data because it's 
unidentifiable. Not all binaries are executable on their own. JPEGs have a 
header and are binaries but not executable.

    What exactly is left when something has been reduced to a "flat binary"? 
That is what I'm meaning. Linux certainly can't identify it I know that.

Bill

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code and data "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-10-20 15:55 -0400
  Re: code and data Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2014-10-20 22:25 +0200
    Re: code and data "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-10-20 17:34 -0400
      Re: code and data Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2014-10-21 00:11 +0200
        Re: code and data "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-10-20 20:01 -0400
  Re: code and data Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-10-20 21:29 +0100
    Re: code and data "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-10-20 17:38 -0400
      Re: code and data Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-10-20 23:09 +0100

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