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Which parts of an ELF executable get loaded into memory, and where?

What I already know: An ELF executable has a number of sections, obviously the .text and .data sections get loaded into memory as these are the main parts of the program. But for a program to work, ...
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How does prelink work

I was wondering how prelinking works. If I prelink my whole system and than delete glibc, will the system 'get up' after restart?
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Why does LD keep outputting “no version information available”

On every loading of a lib, I get the error: no version information available This lib has been compiled on another PC (ubuntu 10.04) than the one running it (mandriva 2010.2). $ ldd ...
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Linux, GNU GCC, ld, version scripts and the ELF binary format — How does it work?

I'm trying to learn more about library versioning in Linux and how to put it all to work. Here's the context: -- I have two versions of a dynamic library which expose the same set of interfaces, say ...