[plt-scheme] Re: oracle driver for PLT?

Hi Noel, hi Thomas,

thanks for the great help! I will certainly have a look at the reverse  
engineered protocol because that's fascinating (also I didn't know  
wireshark, sounds very interesting to try out!), but binding to the C  
library will surely be the simpler way then...

And thank you too for the concrete explanations regarding the 32 v. 64  
bit issue!

Interestingly, file doesn't give such a detailed output on my Mac, and  
as I'm taking off this week I cannot check on Ubuntu at my workplace  
(I have been using file there and the output was also quite short, but  
I think I will mostly have used it for non-executables there, e.g. to  
find out whether something's a symlink or not, so I don't know).

On my Mac I have e.g.

$ file '/usr/bin/file'
/usr/bin/file: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
/usr/bin/file (for architecture i386):	Mach-O executable i386
/usr/bin/file (for architecture ppc7400):	Mach-O executable ppc

Regarding objdump, this I do not have in Leopard, but I found out that  
the Mac equivalent is otool, and from a blog post (http://paulbeachsblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/32bit-or-64bit-binaries-on-macos.html 
) I found how to use it:

$ otool -h /usr/bin/file
/usr/bin/file:
Mach header
magic cputype cpusubtype  caps    filetype ncmds sizeofcmds      flags
0xfeedface       7          3  0x00          2    14       1296  
0x00000085

And in usr/include/mach-o/loader.h I have:

/* Constant for the magic field of the mach_header (32-bit  
architectures) */
#define MH_MAGIC        0xfeedface      /* the mach magic number */


Ciao,
Sigrid




Am 23.09.2009 um 10:45 schrieb Noel Welsh:

> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Sigrid <keydana at gmx.de> wrote:
>> As for the network vs. FFI approach, I was searching the Oracle
>> documentation for it and it seems to me that the network approach is
>> impossible, as it uses a proprietary network protocol (called TTC)
>> from Oracle.
>
> AFAIK, you're largely correct but some people have reverse engineered
> the protocol:
>
> http://www.oracle-internals.com/?p=22
>
> Probably simpler to just bind the C library.
>
>> may I ask a very stupid question: I don't really know how to find out
>> whether a library uses 32bit or 64bit (even I don't know, is this a
>> feature of a single library, or of the system)?
>
> Both :) The OS generally has to support 64-bit (like Snow Leopard) but
> then individual libraries may be 64-bit or 32-bit (if the OS supports
> this kind of "mixed mode" code, which Snow Leopard does).
>
>> Could you tell me how
>> to find out such things on a Mac? (For this, as the concept itself is
>> not too clear for me I would not even know how to find out on Linux,
>> but I must admit that even if I know something on Linux I sometimes
>> have problems when things are different on the Mac...)
>
> file, objdump, or readelf (last is probably Linux specific).   
> Examples on Linux:
>
>
> ~> objdump -f /bham/ums/linux/pd/packages/plt-scheme/bin/mzscheme
>
> /bham/ums/linux/pd/packages/plt-scheme/bin/mzscheme:     file format  
> elf32-i386
> architecture: i386, flags 0x00000112:
> EXEC_P, HAS_SYMS, D_PAGED
> start address 0x0805e570
>
>
> ~> readelf -h /bham/ums/linux/pd/packages/plt-scheme/bin/mzscheme
> ELF Header:
>  Magic:   7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>  Class:                             ELF32
>  Data:                              2's complement, little endian
>  Version:                           1 (current)
>  OS/ABI:                            UNIX - System V
>  ABI Version:                       0
>  Type:                              EXEC (Executable file)
>  Machine:                           Intel 80386
>  Version:                           0x1
>  Entry point address:               0x805e570
>  Start of program headers:          52 (bytes into file)
>  Start of section headers:          4806288 (bytes into file)
>  Flags:                             0x0
>  Size of this header:               52 (bytes)
>  Size of program headers:           32 (bytes)
>  Number of program headers:         8
>  Size of section headers:           40 (bytes)
>  Number of section headers:         38
>  Section header string table index: 35
>
>
>
> ~> file /bham/ums/linux/pd/packages/plt-scheme/bin/mzscheme
> /bham/ums/linux/pd/packages/plt-scheme/bin/mzscheme: ELF 32-bit LSB
> executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9,
> dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, not
> stripped
>
>
>
> HTH,
> N.

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