Re: [PATCH/RFC] Add support for PEF, Mach-O, xSYM

[Klee Dienes <klee at apple dot com>]

On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 06:03 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> There's no attached patch, btw, so I can't review -- please resend?
My bad; here it is:

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> "section" is a PEF section number, "offset" is an offset in that 
> section;
> it points at a TVECTOR8 (that is, offset + section number) which is the
> code address.
>
> A picture is worth a thousand words, so:
>
>    Loader header           data section           code section
> (section# + offset) --> (section# + offset) --> (the actual code)
Eureka!  That makes a lot of sense now.  I'll take a look at it and 
hopefully get it working this weekend.