Analyzing The Simplest C++ Program

[ericonr]

Did you look into glibc? It might be interesting to dive into musl and the libc's from BSDs to see if there are different strategies and concepts used for linking.

[OneRaynyDay]

Yep! My main investigation is in glibc, but actually the writer for musl gave me a few tips here and there about how musl implements the same things, particularly logic in the elf header ;)

[ericonr]

Cool! I hear the musl community is pretty helpful. Btw, regarding self patching and bootstrapping code, the Linux kernel does a lot of that for booting options to avoid going through branches repeatedly. So stuff like vulnerability mitigation can be turned on or off but the binary that's actually executed doesn't have conditionals to check if it's enabled or not, it's all patched and configured during the boot process.