I'm wondering how a .shstrtab is identified compared to a .strtab when parsing an ELF file? From reading elf(5) - Linux manual page both are of section header type SHT_STRTAB, so how would I know i...

I get some symbol and I get (a hexdump of) an ELF file. How can I know in which section this symbol appears? What is the difference between .strtab and .shstrtab? Is there another array of symbol...

I'm writing to see if any of you have ever seen or heard of an implementation of the idea I'm about to describe. I'm interested in developing a printf-style debugging library for an embedded targe...

What is the correct way in C++ to create a global & static table of strings? By "global", I mean: Useable from any file that includes the header. But not part of some run-time created singelto...

I am a .NET guy who is having to do some work on an MFC app. The app is a VS2008 MFC executable which I have converted to VS2010. The original developers did localisation by specifying the name of ...

A recent question about string literals in .NET caught my eye. I know that string literals are interned so that different strings with the same value refer to the same object. I also know that a st...