工具接口標準(TIS)可執行鏈接格式(ELF)規範版本 1.2
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String Table
字符串表
This section describes the default string table. String table sections hold null-terminated character sequences, commonly called strings. The object file uses these strings to represent symbol and section names. One references a string as an index into the
string table section. The first byte, which is index zero, is defined to hold a null character. Likewise, a string table's last byte is defined to hold a null character, ensuring null termination for all strings. A string whose index is zero specifies either
no name or a null name, depending on the context. An empty string table section is permitted; its section header's sh_size member would contain zero. Non-zero indexes are invalid for an empty string table.
本分節描述默認的字符串表。字符串表分節包含一終結符結束的字符序列，通常被稱爲字符串。對象文件使用這些字符串來表示符號和分節名。對字符串的引用通過索引來定位到字符串表節中。索引爲0的第一個字節被定義爲終結符。同樣，字符串表的最後一個字節也被定義爲終結符，確保所有字符串都能夠被終結。索引爲0的字符串表示沒有名字或名字爲空，依賴於內容一個空字符串表分節是被允許的；其分節頭中的sh_size成員爲0。對於空字符串表，非0索引是無效的
A section header's sh_name member holds an index into the section header string table section, as designated by the e_shstrndx member of the ELF header. The following figures show a string table with 25 bytes and the strings associated with various indexes.
一個分節頭的sh_name成員包含一個位於分節頭字符串表分節中的索引，分節頭字符串表分節是ELF頭中e_shstrndx成員指定的分節。接下來的圖表示了一個25字節的字符串表以及關聯了不同索引的字符串。
|
Index |
+0 |
+1 |
+2 |
+3 |
+4 |
+5 |
+6 |
+7 |
+8 |
+9 |
|
0 |
\0 |
n |
a |
m |
e |
. |
\0 |
V |
a |
r |
|
10 |
i |
a |
b |
l |
e |
\0 |
a |
b |
l |
e |
|
20 |
\0 |
\0 |
x |
x |
\0 |
|
|
|
|
|
Figure 1-14. String Table Indexes
圖1-14.符號表索引
|
索引（Index） |
字符串（String） |
|
0 |
none |
|
1 |
name |
|
7 |
Variable |
|
11 |
able |
|
16 |
able |
|
24 |
null string |
As the example shows, a string table index may refer to any byte in the section. A string may appear more than once; references to substrings may exist; and a single string may be referenced multiple times. Unreferenced strings also are allowed.
就像例子中顯示的，一個字符串表索引可能涉及分節中的任何字節。一個字符串可能不止一次出現；可能存在引用子字符串的情況；以及一個單獨字符串可能被引用多次。未引用的字符串也是被允許的。