On 7 May 2015 at 23:43, Serge Lamikhov-Center wrote:

I'd like to determine interest in possible new library submission. ELFIO is header-only C++ library that provides a simple interface for reading and generating files in ELF binary format. It is a mature library and is in use by a number of open source and commercial projects. It is a part of some Linux distributions as well as Cygwin project. Please share your opinion on making this library be a part of the Boost.

Personally speaking, I'd be very interested in a library which provided a generic binary format parsing (and optionally generating) solution, one backend of which might be ELF. A purely ELF specific, non-generic library is perfectly useful, but for me personally probably not a great fit for the Boost libraries without having a highly generic and abstract API in front of it so code written against it need not know much about ELF. Niall -- ned Productions Limited Consulting http://www.nedproductions.biz/ http://ie.linkedin.com/in/nialldouglas/

2015-05-07 23:43 GMT+03:00 Serge Lamikhov-Center :

Hello Boost community!

I'd like to determine interest in possible new library submission. ELFIO is header-only C++ library that provides a simple interface for reading and generating files in ELF binary format. It is a mature library and is in use by a number of open source and commercial projects. It is a part of some Linux distributions as well as Cygwin project.

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Please share your opinion on making this library be a part of the Boost.

HI, I've been investigating this library a few months ago. Unfortunately it supports only ELF file format, while I needed support for PE file format too. I've ended up with writing a less functional but portable class: http://apolukhin.github.io/Boost.DLL/boost/dll/library_info.html ELFIO library is good. But I'd love to see this library extended to support PE and MACH-O formats before Boost review. Without that library scope seems limited. P.S.: sorry for previous mail, keyboard seems to be very attractive to baby. -- Best regards, Antony Polukhin